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Microsoft 365 at Ignite—Re-energize your workforce in the office, at home, and everywhere in between
Empowering today’s digitally connected, distributed workforce requires the right culture and the right technology. At Microsoft Ignite, we’re sharing new innovations across Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft Viva to help everyone thrive.
Introducing Microsoft Places: Turn your spaces into places
Introducing Microsoft Places, our new Connected Workplace platform that reimagines places for hybrid and in-person work. Learn more.
Welcome to Microsoft Syntex—Content AI integrated in the flow of work
Microsoft Syntex is Content AI that’s integrated in the flow of work, helping enhance, manage, and connect your content at scale. Learn more.
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New to Microsoft 365 in October—tools to create impactful content and help transition to the cloud
This month, we released new features in Microsoft 365 that help teams enhance the look and feel of their content with ease, plus new tools and resources to help you transition to the cloud. Here’s a look at what’s new in October. Create content that stands out We’re excited to introduce new capabilities that help
Microsoft named a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Access Management
Howdy folks, Every day, everyone in the Microsoft Identity Division comes to work focused on helping you, our customers, make your employees, partners, and customers more productive and to make it easier for you to securely manage access to your enterprise resources. So, I was pretty excited to learn that Microsoft was recently recognized as
A new vision for modern work management with Microsoft Project
At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Today, I’m pleased to announce a new vision for Microsoft Project and three new services designed to help people work together more efficiently. Over the last few years, the basic organizing concept for work—the project—has changed significantly.
Your favorite email app, Outlook mobile, adds new enterprise information protection and mobile management capabilities
Three years ago, we launched Outlook mobile with a mission to deliver the best on-the-go email and calendar app, one that combines delightful customer experiences with enterprise-grade security. To serve an ever more mobile and distributed workforce, today we are announcing new, advanced enterprise capabilities for Outlook mobile with support for Microsoft Information Protection native
Office 2019 is now available for Windows and Mac
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Office 2019 for Windows and Mac. Office 2019 is the next on-premises version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, Visio, Access, and Publisher. Office 365 ProPlus, the cloud-connected version of Office, delivers the most productive and most secure Office experience—with the lowest total cost of ownership for
Microsoft Search—cohesive search that intelligently helps you find, discover, command, and navigate
At Ignite last year, we introduced personalized search across Office 365, a way to bring intelligent search and discovery experiences directly to you. Today, we’re delighted to announce that we are expanding that vision to encompass search both inside and outside of Microsoft 365. By applying artificial intelligence (AI) technology from Bing to the deep personalized
Microsoft 365 adds modern desktop on Azure
Today, we are announcing Windows Virtual Desktop, the best virtualized Windows and Office experience delivered on Azure. Windows Virtual Desktop is the only cloud-based service that delivers a multi-user Windows 10 experience, optimized for Office 365 ProPlus, and includes free Windows 7 Extended Security Updates. With Windows Virtual Desktop, you can deploy and scale Windows
Bringing AI to Excel—4 new features announced today at Ignite
Excel’s power comes from its simplicity. At its core, Excel is three things: cells of data laid out in rows and columns, a powerful calculation engine, and a set of tools for working with the data. The result is an incredibly flexible app that hundreds of millions of people use daily in a wide variety
10 new ways for everyone to achieve more in the modern workplace
It’s been over a year since we introduced Microsoft 365, the complete, intelligent, and secure solution that empowers employees to drive their organizations to future growth. Customers are seeking to transform and support a workforce that is more diverse and mobile than ever before, and they are relying on latest advancements in technology to do
Collaborating with customers and partners to deliver a modern desktop: Microsoft Managed Desktop
We have consistently heard from our customers—both large and small—that they struggle to keep up with the pace of changes in technology. They feel pulled between the requirement to stay secure and up to date against the need to drive more business value. They are challenged to deliver the great user experiences that employees want