Yammer Enterprise now included in Office 365 Midsize Business and Education plans

Jared Spataro is the General Manager of Enterprise Social at Microsoft. One of our key themes at the SharePoint Conference in March was Work Like a Network. Yammer is at the heart of this new way of getting things done, and ever since the acquisition we’ve been focused on weaving social capabilities deeply into Office 365. In …

Price cuts, new features coming for Office 365 small biz customers

Microsoft is still keen to shift its perpetual-license Office customers over to the Office 365 subscription model, and to that end it’s planning a shakeup of its Office 365 plans for small and midsized businesses to offer customers more value and greater flexibility. Beginning on October 1, Redmond will launch three new Office subscription plans …

Office 2010 SP1, Windows Server 2003, and more

As the second half 2014 rolls in, Microsoft is stepping up its warnings for approaching support deadlines for some of its key products, including Windows 7. “End of support” means there will be no more fixes or patches — paid or free, security or non-security — coming for specific products. (There are some temporary workarounds, as Windows XP …

Windows Threshold: The modern UI takes a backseat for desktop users

Microsoft is hard at work on the next major update to Windows and we don’t mean Update 2. Threshold, as it is currently known, is a wave of updates coming to Windows and other platforms; much like how Blue brought new features across many of Microsoft’s key platforms. While it is still a little unclear if the Threshold …