With millions of employees at thousands of companies now getting work done with collaboration software such as Slack and Microsoft Teams, it’s created opportunities for startups to build tools that… Read More
Slack wants to make it easier to build apps and integrations on its platform, hoping to attract third-party developers as it battles Microsoft and others in the competitive market for… Read More
Microsoft is expanding its healthcare offerings with three new tools that bring its cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities into hospitals through team collaboration, bots and health record sharing. The new products… Read More
Microsoft is doubling down on the education market, a competitive arena for the world’s largest tech giants, with a series of new low-cost laptops and tools to help students and… Read More
Microsoft’s play to become the tech provider of choice for so-called “first-line workers” — people in fields like retail, hospitality and manufacturing — is taking another step forward with a set… Read More
Microsoft Teams is now being used by more organizations than its rival Slack, according to a new survey that shows how far the Redmond tech giant’s collaboration app has come… Read More
Microsoft wants to spread the use of its Slack rival Teams, so it is introducing tools for specialized groups like retail and healthcare workers. As Microsoft began its annual IT… Read More
Today’s featured stories Microsoft unveils free version of Teams productivity tool, upping the ante against rival Slack ‘Not like Amazon Go’: Nike debuts high-tech store that removes friction but keeps… Read More
Microsoft today debuted a free version of Microsoft Teams, expanding the reach of the company’s Slack competitor beyond the Office 365 ecosystem. The company says more than 200,000 organizations use… Read More
Raanah Amjadi moved to Seattle more than four years ago to start her career at Microsoft and during that time has tried her hand at various jobs within the company.… Read More
Microsoft Teams is now being used by 200,000 organizations in 181 markets around the world, up four-fold since the tech giant’s workplace chat and collaboration technology launched one year ago… Read More
Microsoft Teams is expanding into a new market: Government employees. The company hired Avanade technical evangelist David Rosenthal for the initiative, Rosenthal told GeekWire in an email. “I’ll be part of the… Read More
Microsoft is out with a series of new features for its chat and productivity program Teams, all with a common goal of making it easier to get more done without… Read More
Facebook just notched a big win for its collaboration tool Workplace by Facebook, landing the nation’s largest employer, Walmart. Typically, these types of tolls are associated with office workers. But Walmart is… Read More
Microsoft is going all in on its chat and productivity tool, Teams. As its annual customer event Ignite kicks off in Orlando, Microsoft announced this morning that Teams will eventually… Read More
As Microsoft continues to navigate the competitive landscape of collaboration tools, its Teams program is now being used by 125,000 organizations, up from 50,000 at its official launch in March.… Read More
The popular project management program Trello is now integrated into Microsoft Teams, the Redmond tech giant’s new enterprise messaging platform within Office 365. Trello, which boasts more than 19 million registered… Read More
Slack has added a new feature that lets people insert dropdown menus in the middle of conversations. These menus are designed to enable users do more of their work within Slack and… Read More
If you’re not familiar with Slack, odds are you don’t work at a startup. This messaging platform has been taking workplaces by storm over the past few years. But Slack is… Read More
Even though Microsoft just released its Teams enterprise collaboration tool today, there’s a familiar look and feel to a lot of the features, and that’s by design. GeekWire got a demonstration of the… Read More
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft commemorated the launch of its Teams “chat-based workspace” for Office 365 in 181 markets around the world today with a small gathering at the company’s headquarters,… Read More
REDMOND, Wash. — After four months in preview, Microsoft is officially launching its Teams “chat-based workspace” for Office 365 in 181 markets around the world today, challenging Slack and tech… Read More
Microsoft will release its answer to Slack, Microsoft Teams, on a global basis next week. The company is holding an “online event” for the release of Teams, Microsoft’s new workplace… Read More
Popular messaging service Slack has entered the big leagues. The company launched a service catering to large corporations on Tuesday. With Enterprise Grid, Slack took a new approach by allowing companies… Read More
Microsoft Teams isn’t even generally available to the public yet, but one report prognosticates that the new chat app will soon be used by more businesses than both Google Hangouts and… Read More
Merger documents uncovered by GeekWire suggest that Amazon last year stealthily acquired Biba, a San Francisco-based company that makes chat, video and audio conferencing tools for businesses. Documents filed with the Delaware… Read More
Slack made headlines yesterday with its full-page newspaper advertisement preempting Microsoft’s announcement of its new Slack competitor, Teams. If the goal was to steal attention away from its larger competitor,… Read More
It was only four years ago that Microsoft dropped a cool $1.2 billion on Yammer, which bills itself as a social network for work. Today Microsoft unveiled its long-awaited Slack competitor, Microsoft… Read More