Skype for Business gains momentum

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Last month, we announced that the new Skype for Business client for Windows desktop and the online service in Office 365 have begun rolling out. Continuing the momentum, today at the Microsoft Ignite conference, we talked about modern meetings, which require that participants in any location can see, hear and collaborate within the meeting as easily as if everyone is sitting in the same room. We announced today that…

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Sway is coming to Office 365 for business and education and adding more languages

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: In October 2014, we introduced Office Sway to the world as a brand new app joining the Office family. It’s been inspiring to see the variety of ways people have used Sway in their educational, professional, and personal lives. People all over the world tell us how excited they are to quickly create and share their ideas with a variety of multimedia using Sway’s polished, interactive, web-based canvas. Sway…

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Office 2016 Public Preview now available

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Over the last 12 months, we’ve transformed Office from a suite of desktop applications to a complete, cross-platform, cross-device solution for getting work done. We’ve expanded the Office footprint to iPad and Android tablets. We’ve upgraded Office experiences on the Mac, the iPhone and on the web. We’ve even added new apps to the Office family with Sway and Office Lens. All designed to keep your work moving, everywhere.…

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News at Bulid of Office plattform

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: A sneak peek of the new Office Graph API—Now developers can build powerful solutions that tap into rich data and machine learning capabilities to build smarter applications, all through a new single unified API endpoint. Expanded Office add-in capabilities—With Excel for iPad support for add-ins, developers can reach over 100M additional Office users. Word and PowerPoint for iPad are coming soon. Add-ins for Outlook.com—Extend Outlook.com with your own capabilities…

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Office 365 – Announcing Customer Lockbox

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: As a cloud services provider, we recognize that organizations understandably want to have full control over access to their content stored in cloud services. Today at RSA, we announced Customer Lockbox for Office 365, a new capability designed to provide customers with unprecedented control over their content in the service. Customer Lockbox gives customers explicit control in the very rare instances when a Microsoft engineer may need access to…

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Evolving Data Loss Prevention in SharePoint Online/OneDrive for Business and Office applications

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Everywhere your data exists, moves or is shared, we want to protect it. Office 365 has provided Data Loss Prevention (DLP) capabilities for email since Exchange 2013. As collaboration extends beyond email to sites and documents, we are extending the DLP capabilities to these services. Last year at TechEd Barcelona, we showed a quick glimpse of our vision for expanding DLP and today we are pleased to share more…

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Yammer is moving to Microsoft Datacenters on May 16, 2015

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Microsoft has announced that Yammer production services will move into Microsoft managed datacenters on May 16th, 2015. This is a significant milestone which brings increased capacity and compliance to Yammer, along with the full support of Microsoft Datacenter teams. For more information about Microsoft datacenters, please visit the Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure and Operations overview. As part of our move, you should note two things: • There will be scheduled downtime…

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Enhancing transparency and control for Office 365 customers

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: In running the Office 365 service globally, we know that security, privacy and compliance are imperatives for customers, and that’s why these remain unwavering priorities for us. We recognize as a cloud service provider that providing customers with visibility into actions taken on their content and control over access to their content in the cloud are essential to earning and maintaining their trust, and so transparency and control are…

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Take control of data with Excel’s business analytics tools

Nuno Árias Silva

Body: Today, businesses are required to understand a growing amount of company, market and social data to drive effective business decisions and remain competitive. This trend of analytics everywhere is driving a shift in the roles of business consumers, as the need for direct data access, ad-hoc analyses and in-depth reporting is growing beyond the capacity of their IT departments. Many specialized business intelligence and analytics solutions are entering the…

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