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With Canvas, Slack promises teams an easier way to share information
Slack users will soon be able access simple shared documents from within the messaging app, now that its new Canvas feature has been made generally available.
Slack unveiled Canvas at parent company Salesforce’s Dreamforce event in September, promising a new way for users to create and share information from within a Slack workspace. Canvas documents can contain a variety of information, such as text, files, apps and rich media that’s all searchable like other content within Slack. These documents can be paired with a specific channel or conversation to provide easy access to important information on a certain topic.
Microsoft Teams is about to become optional for Office users
Microsoft will reportedly unbundle Teams from Office to avoid antitrust concerns
Microsoft has agreed to stop bundling its Teams remote collaboration software with its Office productivity suite, according toFinancial Times. The company’s move attempts to head off an official EU antitrust investigation as it deals with its most significant regulatory concerns in over a decade.
FT’s sources say companies will eventually be able to buy Office with or without Teams installed, “but the mechanism on how to do this remains unclear.” Talks with EU regulators are reportedly ongoing, and “a deal is not certain.” Microsoft told FT, “We are mindful of our responsibilities in the EU as a major technology company. We continue to engage cooperatively with the commission in its investigation and are open to pragmatic solutions that address its concerns and serve customers well.”
Competing remote-work platform Slack, now owned by Salesforce, complained to EU regulators in 2020, asking officials to make Microsoft sell Teams separately from its ubiquitous Office suite. Slack’s general counsel said at the time, “We’re asking the EU to be a neutral referee, examine the facts and enforce the law.”
Microsoft is facing its first regulatory issues in a decade. The company agreed to a settlement with the European Commission in 2009, agreeing to offer European customers a choice of web browsers; it was then fined €561 million in 2013 for failing to adhere to that consistently. Of course, its most famous antitrust shakeup came around the turn of the millennium when it was initially forced to break up into two companies, a ruling later overturned by an appeals court. Microsoft and the DOJ settled in 2001, agreeing to restrictions like sharing APIs with third-party developers and letting PC manufacturers install non-Microsoft software on their products.
In recent months, the company has been scrambling to receive regulatory approval for its planned $69 billion purchase of game publisher Activision Blizzard. The company is reportedly expected to receive a green light from the EU and UK, and it has until July to appease the US Federal Trade Commission. Microsoft offered 10-year legal agreements to provide Call of Duty on Nintendo consoles and cloud-streaming platform Boosteroid to help ease those concerns. Sony reportedly declined a similar offer.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-will-reportedly-unbundle-teams-from-office-to-avoid-antitrust-concerns-183139403.html?src=rss
Pathlight debuts ‘AI manager’ for enterprise teams
Technical teams hit by Meta’s latest wave of layoffs
Meta is laying off a number of its technical employees, the second in the latest round of job cuts that CEO Mark Zuckerburg first announced back in March.
Employees holding technical roles like user experience, software engineering, and graphics programming were notified of their termination on Wednesday, CNBC reported, and mutliple technology staffers have taken to social media to say they’ve been laid off. Gameplay programmers were also affected by the layoffs, CNBC said.
How to use Microsoft Loop in Outlook and Teams
Microsoft has been developing an ambitious collaboration app for its Microsoft 365 platform. Called Microsoft Loop, the tool includes shared workspaces as well as portable content snippets called Loop components that can be shared and embedded in multiple Microsoft 365 apps.
What makes Loop so useful is that those shared components can be updated by multiple collaborators, and they stay in sync no matter where they’re embedded. One person could edit a component in an Outlook email, while another edits it in a Teams chat, and the latest changes appear in both places.
Microsoft recently released the Loop app in public preview. We’ll be exploring that app in another story soon, but you don’t need to use the app to get started using Loop components. That’s because Microsoft has been integrating Loop components into some Microsoft 365 apps, primarily Outlook and Teams, for some time now — so you can create, share, and work on them in Microsoft 365 apps you’re already familiar with.