
At the end of June, Microsoft purchased the San Francisco-based social media juggernaut Yammer for 1.2 billion. Yammer provides private corporate social networks to organizations all across the world, so employees can stay in touch and collaborate with each other in realtime.
This week at the Microsoft World Partner Conference in Toronto, Steve Ballmer addressed the acquisition as a “best of breed product that will fundamentally change how Microsoft and its partners communicate and collaborate” and cited it as a key move by the company that underscores its commitment to its growing portfolio of cloud services available in the enterprise.
When asked about Yammer’s purpose and potential,Yammer CEO David Sacks shared this simple but powerful nugget:
Microsoft is in Beta Release of the Hosted Blackberry service for Office 365, called BlackBerry Business Cloud Services from RIM.
For those who have been eagerly anticipating the full public launch of Office 365- the wait is finally over. Microsoft announced that on June 28th, the cloud-based online business application subscription service will be ready and available for the public.
It seems everyone wants a unified communications and collaboration platform – industry research shows this is a growing priority and the technology for it has radically evolved in recent years, making the business case even more compelling.
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Starting July 1st 2011, Microsoft is launching “License Mobility” to volume license customers with
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