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Skype Will Shut Down on May 5, As Microsoft Shifts to Teams

Skype Will Shut Down on May 5, As Microsoft Shifts to Teams

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Image: Microsoft Microsoft is officially retiring Skype on May 5, ending the app’s two-decade run as a pioneer in video calling. The move signals Microsoft’s full shift toward Teams, its all-in-one messaging and video platform. “At this point, putting all our focus behind Teams will let us give a simpler message and drive faster innovation,” Microsoft 365 collaborative apps and platforms President Jeff Teper told TechCrunch. Skype service will end on May 5 An XDA Developers reader first spotted a string of code inside Skype in Windows preview displaying a message about migration. The message says “Starting in May, Skype will no longer be available. Continue your calls and chats in Teams.” Microsoft confirmed the Skype shutdown in an official blog on Friday. “With Teams, users have access to many of the same core features they use in Skype, such as one-on-one calls and group calls, messaging, and file sharing,” Teper wrote. “Additionally, Teams offers enhanced features like hosting meetings, managing calendars, and building and joining communities for free.” SEE: A Slack outage this week …

Get Lifetime Access to Microsoft Office 2021 for Just

Get Lifetime Access to Microsoft Office 2021 for Just $60

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Growing up, most millennials got a little experience using Microsoft Office. Older generations got the same training from their employers. While we’ve all come to recognize Microsoft Office as essential in the modern workplace, you don’t really think about how expensive it is until it comes time to get it for your personal computer. Whether you’re starting a new business venture and need Microsoft Office’s help or you just want to get better organized in your personal life, it’s a good time to take advantage of this limited-time deal to get Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows: Lifetime License for just $59.97 through Feb. 23 and Microsoft Office Home & Business for Mac 2021: Lifetime Access for just $84.97. With this deal, you’ll get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and OneNote for one computer for use at home or at work. That’s a complete bundle to basically handle all of your business and personal needs from word processing and data management to email, note taking and more. You’ll get a lifetime license to each product …

Zoom Adds New Advanced Enterprise Offerings

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Zoom is focusing on enterprise and regulated industries in its latest crop of updates to its business subscriptions. On Sept. 24, Zoom announced several new add-on products for enterprise customers. The features bolster the existing, robust portfolio of Zoom’s offerings and are intended to help organizations meet their compliance, security, privacy, survivability, and manageability requirements. Zoom announces four advanced enterprise offerings The new add-ons available for Zoom Workplace and Zoom Business Services are: Zoom Compliance Manager Plus: An update to the Zoom Compliance Manager, which was released in March. This offering adds risk detection, data loss protection, and advanced trends analysis. Zoom positions industries such as finance, healthcare, and government agencies as the key customers for Zoom Compliance Manager Plus. Zoom Meeting Survivability: Provides protections in place against downtime in the case of natural disaster or problems with a carrier. Specifically, Zoom Meeting Survivability uses Zoom Node, which shifts the meeting to a local server to be hosted on-premises. Zoom Mesh: Previously only available for Zoom Webinars and Events, Zoom Mesh has been extended to …

Apple, Microsoft Accused of Not Doing Enough to Stop Child Exploitation by Australian Regulator

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An Australian regulator, after using new powers to make the tech giants share information about their methods, accused Apple and Microsoft not doing enough to stop child exploitation content on their platforms. The e-Safety Commissioner, an office set up to protect internet users, said that after sending legal demands for information to some of the world’s biggest internet firms, the responses showed Apple and Microsoft did not proactively screen for child abuse material in their storage services, iCloud and OneDrive. Our use of world-leading transparency powers found some of the world’s biggest tech companies aren’t doing enough to tackle child sexual exploitation on their platforms, with inadequate & inconsistent use of tech to detect child abuse material & grooming: https://t.co/ssjjVcmirD pic.twitter.com/onfi3Ujt85 — eSafety Commissioner (@eSafetyOffice) December 14, 2022 The two firms also confirmed they did not use any technology to detect live-streaming of child sexual abuse on video services Skype and Microsoft Teams, which are owned by Microsoft and FaceTime, which is owned by Apple, the commissioner said in a report published on Thursday. A …

Microsoft Teams Update Adds Ability to View 49 Videos at Once, Schedule Messages: All Details

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Microsoft recently announced new features as part of an update to its enterprise-centric video conferencing platform, Microsoft Teams. The updates bring in new features that include the ability to view up to 49 videos on screen by default, schedule messages. Users can also launch instant polls, and use the newly added unread-only toggle. Microsoft made the announcement as part of its update for November 2022 in a blog post detailing each of the newly introduced features. First of the new features announced through the blog post by Microsoft is the ability to launch a one-click instant poll during a Teams meeting. Presenters will have the ability to launch spoken poll questions by clicking on the launch instant poll buttons that are present at the bottom right of the screen. Users can pick from three buttons with binary responses on the poll: yes or no, thumbs up thumbs down, and a heart and heartbroken icon. These questions do not require to be prepared in advance, according to Microsoft — users can speak the question out loud …