Meta is shutting down its Workplace level adjacent year, but Microsoft is readying to support the dream of Facebook astatine activity very overmuch alive. Multiple sources astatine Microsoft show maine the institution has started testing a afloat integrated Facebook-like provender wrong Microsoft Teams recently.
Teams users will beryllium capable to station to the feed, known arsenic a Storyline, aliases reply to colleagues’ posts overmuch for illustration you would connected Facebook. Microsoft is pitching this arsenic a measurement for colleagues to stock announcements, news, aliases advancement connected a project. It could besides beryllium utilized to congratulate colleagues connected activity goals aliases cardinal milestones. I’d expect, successful galore cases, this will besides beryllium utilized to stock the type of contented you’d typically find connected LinkedIn.
Microsoft isn’t utilizing LinkedIn to powerfulness this caller feature, though. Storyline successful Teams is built connected apical of Viva Engage, the Yammer replacement that Microsoft launched a fewer years ago. Viva Engage was already available wrong Teams, but it was hidden distant successful a abstracted tab. Microsoft is now taking the Storyline feature of Viva Engage and integrating it profoundly into the main interface of Teams.
The main fastener successful Microsoft Teams that you usage to nonstop a caller DM aliases create a caller transmission will soon see an action to create a caller Storyline post. These posts will besides look successful a Storyline tab connected people’s profiles, alongside the normal chat and files sections.
You’ll moreover beryllium capable to travel colleagues for illustration you’d travel a nationalist fig connected Facebook aliases Instagram, and immoderate reactions aliases comments connected posts will show up successful the Teams activity feed. Sources show maine Microsoft is besides moving connected paid features for Storyline, including the expertise to spot floor plan analytics if you’re consenting to salary other for Microsoft Teams Premium.
IT admins will beryllium capable to power who tin create caller posts aliases announcements, but the moderation of posts will travel down to individual labor and workplace policies. You wouldn’t expect colleagues to station vacation snaps connected a Facebook-like provender astatine work, but fixed immoderate of the heated posts successful Microsoft’s soul Viva Engage communities, I wouldn’t beryllium amazed if immoderate businesses person to cautiously negociate who tin and can’t station connected Storyline.
Microsoft first teased this Storyline integration into Teams astatine Ignite successful November, but it flew nether the radar fixed the sheer magnitude of news that comes retired of the IT-focused conference. Storyline successful Teams is owed to beryllium disposable successful preview shape early this year, and successful caller weeks, Microsoft has started rolling it retired internally to immoderate versions of its Teams clients. That’s a bully motion that it’s astir fresh for a nationalist preview earlier broader readiness later this year.
Storyline is conscionable 1 of galore caller features that Microsoft is readying for Teams this year. Copilot will soon beryllium capable to nutrient record summaries, pulling retired the cardinal parts of a Word archive aliases PowerPoint presentation. Microsoft is besides rolling retired the expertise to grounds the correct pronunciation of your sanction to stock connected your profile.
Teams is getting unrecorded transcription support for aggregate languages soon, and a caller Super Resolution characteristic is being built to heighten video value connected Qualcomm-based Copilot Plus PCs. The caller Super Resolution characteristic entered public preview earlier this week, alongside the rollout of a new almanac experience that yet integrates the Outlook almanac into Teams and includes period and divided views.
With Microsoft’s Build developer convention coming up successful May, I’m judge location will beryllium plentifulness much AI-powered features coming to Microsoft Teams this year, too.
More Xbox games get connected PS5
Microsoft’s Project Latitude, the Xbox strategy to bring much first-party games to much platforms, has been afloat steam up recently. Microsoft announced past week that Forza Horizon 5 is making its measurement to the PS5 soon, giving PlayStation owners 1 of the champion Forza titles to date.
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition will join Forza this spring, aft Age of Mythology: Retold launches for PS5 connected March 4th. All 3 games were announced for PlayStation successful blog posts, alternatively than being portion of a Microsoft arena aliases moreover a PlayStation one.
While Forza appearing connected PS5 mightiness astonishment immoderate Xbox fans, it has been heavy rumored for months now. I besides reported successful Notepad in June of past year that Age of Empires and Age of Mythology were heading to PS5 successful early 2025 and that Microsoft was besides “working connected immoderate shape of a Halo: Combat Evolved remaster that [was] besides being considered for rival consoles.”
Microsoft has been weighing whether to motorboat Gears of War and Microsoft Flight Simulator connected PS5, too, arsenic I first reported astir a twelvemonth ago. I wouldn’t beryllium amazed if Microsoft goes up pinch porting Halo and Gears of War soon, arsenic Xbox main Phil Spencer precocious made it clearer than ever earlier that much Xbox games are coming to PlayStation.
“It does mean much of our games shipping connected much platforms, not conscionable PlayStation. We emotion the activity we do pinch Nintendo, we emotion what we do pinch Valve connected Steam. Our games will show up successful much and much places,” said Spencer successful a podcast successful January.
While Xbox games connected PlayStation are making the headlines correct now, location will beryllium announcements for Nintendo’s upcoming Switch 2 console, too. The much powerful hardware intends Microsoft tin larboard a batch much Xbox games to Nintendo’s level and fulfill its committedness of bringing Call of Duty to the Switch.
- Microsoft’s Build developer convention starts connected May 19th. Microsoft has confirmed that its Build developer convention is being held again successful Seattle this year. It will tally from May 19th done May 22nd astatine the Seattle Convention Center. Microsoft hasn’t hinted astatine what to expect this year, but here’s a clue: AI.
- Microsoft 365 is losing its free VPN feature. A batch of group didn’t moreover recognize Microsoft 365 had a VPN feature, but you only person a fewer weeks near to usage it. Designed arsenic a privateness feature, the VPN uses the Microsoft Defender app to encrypt net postulation and hide IP addresses. Microsoft is removing this characteristic connected February 28th, aft raising Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscription prices for the first clip successful 12 years.
- Microsoft’s performance-based cuts person started. Over the past fewer weeks, I’ve heard from respective labor who person been affected by performance-based cuts astatine Microsoft aliases who cognize of colleagues that were fto go. Business Insider reports that immoderate ousted workers sewage nary severance. Given the quality of these cuts, it’s difficult to get a clear image of really galore Microsoft labor person mislaid their jobs recently, truthful if you’ve heard anything, please get successful touch confidentially connected the Signal messaging app, wherever I’m tomwarren.01.
- Microsoft Paint is getting a Copilot button, too. The generative AI features successful Paint are now being rounded up into a Copilot button. A drop-down paper will include the Cocreator characteristic that lets you move doodles into AI-generated images arsenic good arsenic features for illustration generative erase, inheritance removal, and a text-to-image creator. Windows Insiders are the first to trial this caller Copilot button, and it’s absorbing to spot Microsoft yet commencement branding these Windows AI features arsenic Copilot ones.
- Nvidia hires a Microsoft graphics veteran. When I first started covering Microsoft arsenic a teen successful the precocious ’90s, Kam VedBrat was successful complaint of the Windows personification experience. He went connected to lead galore of the cardinal advances successful the Windows graphics level and was portion of a squad that overhauled the Windows UI, giving Windows Vista its Aero creation connection afloat of glass-like model borders and 3D animations. VedBrat is now joining Nvidia arsenic a elder head successful the GPU package group. He says he’ll beryllium “focused connected the adjacent activity of challenges successful an area that has been adjacent to my bosom passim my career.”
- Microsoft AI CEO headhunts erstwhile Google colleagues. Google DeepMind laminitis Mustafa Suleyman has hired 3 erstwhile colleagues to create a caller Microsoft AI agency successful Zurich. Marco Tagliasacchi, Zalán Borsos, and Matthias Minderer all announced this week that they’re joining the Microsoft AI team, conscionable weeks aft Suleyman hired different ex-DeepMind unit for an AI wellness portion astatine Microsoft.
- Microsoft PowerToys is getting a media transcoding feature. Converting video aliases audio files wrong Windows has ne'er been easy, but PowerToys is astir to make it a batch much accessible. A caller summation to the Advanced Paste feature will soon fto you transcode audio files to MP3 aliases transcode video files to MP4. It looks for illustration it’ll beryllium a useful characteristic for anyone who wants to extract audio from a video record aliases easy person videos into a much compatible format.
- Outlook for Mac is getting the callback emails feature. Microsoft has started testing the expertise to recall emails successful Outlook for Mac. It’s a characteristic that has agelong been disposable successful Outlook for Windows aliases Outlook connected the web, and it’s yet coming to the macOS client. Microsoft 365 Insiders successful the Beta Channel tin trial it correct now, earlier it rolls retired to a broader preview later this month.
- Microsoft is bringing awesome MIDI improvements to Windows 11. Microsoft has started testing the biggest update to MIDI since the philharmonic connection protocol was first released. A caller Canary build of Windows 11 includes MIDI 2.0 support and the expertise for MIDI 1.0 to tally connected Windows connected Arm. MIDI 2.0 includes improvements to speed, fidelity, and instrumentality power to thief amended modern euphony production.
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