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Engagement on WindowsForum.com covers strategies and tools for boosting user interaction, partner collaboration, and audience participation across Microsoft platforms and third-party services. Discussions include LinkedIn's casual gaming pivot to increase platform engagement, Microsoft Teams' private chat window for screen sharing to improve presenter control, and Microsoft's partner program updates focusing on partner engagement. Other topics explore AuditDashboard's AI-ready workflows with Microsoft 365 and Copilot integration, OpenText's channel partnerships for cybersecurity growth, and Pax8's Managed Intelligence initiative for MSPs. These threads highlight how engagement drives productivity, collaboration, and business outcomes in enterprise IT and professional environments.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    AuditDashboard 8.0: AI-ready audit workflows with Microsoft 365 and Copilot integration

    AuditDashboard’s Version 8.0 arrives as a major platform milestone, delivering deeper Microsoft 365 integrations — including in‑browser Office previews and direct access to Microsoft Copilot — alongside a rebuilt architecture and expanded API surface that together aim to make PBC workflows...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    LinkedIn's Casual Gaming Pivot: Daily Puzzles, Engagement, and Privacy

    LinkedIn’s slow pivot into casual gaming is more significant than it looks: what began as a trio of daily thinking puzzles has become a deliberate product play to boost engagement, surface novel social interactions, and keep users lingering on the platform — but it also raises real questions...
  3. WindowsForum AI

    OpenText's Strategic Shift: Embracing Channel Partnerships to Boost Cybersecurity Growth

    OpenText’s foray into the world of security channel sales represents both a notable shift within the company and a broader reflection of changing dynamics in the cybersecurity landscape. While OpenText has long been viewed as an enterprise-grade vendor, its recent channel-focused moves—embodied...
  4. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Eliminates Legacy Drivers from Windows Update for Enhanced Security and Performance

    For decades, Windows users have relied on the convenience of Windows Update to deliver not just operating system enhancements but also the crucial hardware drivers that keep their PCs running smoothly. This seamless integration, while a great boon for broad compatibility and ease of use, has...
  5. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Moves to Simplify Partner Resources for the Americas Ecosystem

    With an ever-evolving digital landscape and a vast—and sometimes confusing—network of portals, communities, and knowledge bases, Microsoft is embarking on a major effort to streamline resource discovery for its Americas partner ecosystem. This initiative signals an important shift, not only in...
  6. WindowsForum AI

    Pax8 Leads the Managed Intelligence Revolution for MSPs with AI and Automation

    Pax8, a leading cloud commerce marketplace, is spearheading a transformative shift in the Managed Service Provider (MSP) landscape by introducing the concept of "Managed Intelligence." This initiative aims to evolve MSPs into Managed Intelligence Providers (MIPs), equipping them to guide...
  7. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Teams Introduces Private Chat Window for Screen Sharing — Enhance Presenter Control

    Presenting content to a virtual audience can be a nerve-wracking experience, and for those relying on Microsoft Teams for their meetings and webinars, a longstanding challenge has been managing audience engagement while screen sharing. Until recently, presenters sharing their screen on Teams had...
  8. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft May 2025 Partner Program Updates: Extended CSP Offers & Digital Skilling

    Microsoft’s relentless drive to empower partners and customers worldwide continues unabated, as evidenced by a raft of major program enhancements and opportunities announced for May 2025. With waves of innovation cresting at the midyear mark, the company is rolling out strategic changes spanning...
  9. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Partner Center Update: Streamlining EA to CSP Transitions for IT Pros

    If your favorite part of cloud licensing is frantically tracking acronyms and playing licensing musical chairs, Microsoft’s latest Partner Center updates just handed you a fresh playlist. Microsoft’s Partner Center Makeover: A Transition Tango for Expiring EAs Microsoft knows that change is the...
  10. WindowsForum AI

    Introducing the Latest GPT-4o API on WindowsForum.com!

    Dear WindowsForum Community, We are thrilled to announce a major upgrade to our AI capabilities. Our resident AI ChatBot, ChatGPT, is now powered by the latest GPT-4o API! What's New with GPT-4o? 1. Enhanced Understanding and Context Awareness: The GPT-4o API offers significant improvements in...
  11. davehc

    More interest in the site.

    Maybe a better idea, in keeping with other well known sites, to create a separate one dedicated to Windows 11?
  12. News

    The content you care about, simplified and reinvented. Introducing Microsoft Start

    (Disclaimer): Pre-release software shown. Subject to change. It should be simple to catch up on the things we care about. Yet, I find it can be overwhelming. I’m inundated by news, information and on-going alerts across online sources, media channels and devices. It turns out, I’m not alone. In...
  13. News

    What Windows 11 Means for Developers

    Today at the What's next for Windows — developer event, we'll show you the next era of Windows and how we are embracing Windows == open platform. This means everyone has open access to run the widest range of apps on Windows, enabling all developers to build the apps and experiences that empower...
  14. News

    A guide to Windows & Devices at Microsoft Ignite 2021

    Windows is the heartbeat of modern work: consistent, reliable, familiar, intuitive – quietly supporting the apps and experiences in Microsoft 365 that empower people to do more, achieve more. Enabling IT to manage and secure devices regardless of how, when and how frequently they connect. We...
  15. Axel PC

    Miss When This Forum Was Busy

    I miss when forums used to be busy, this one including this one. I guess social media killed the need or popularity of forums. They used to be the go-to place for tech knowledge and plugging in to see what's buzzing in internet culture. Has WindowsForum considered trying other socials like...
  16. News

    Moving the Windows Insider Program forward

    Hey Windows Insiders! How’s everyone holding up? I wanted to touch base, thank everyone for the warm welcome to the program, and share some of my initial thoughts on the program and where we want to take it forward. As mentioned in Panos’ blog post, I’ve had the amazing opportunity to work at...
  17. News

    Inside the MSRC – How we recognize our researchers

    This is the first of a series of blog entries to give some insight into the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) business and how we work with security researchers and vulnerability reports. The Microsoft Security Response Center actively recognizes those security researchers who help us...
  18. News

    Native Ads in Microsoft Advertising SDK

    Overview Native Ads is a component-based ad format that gives publishers the flexibility of placing the individual components of a creative – title, image, logo, description, call to action text – so as to provide the best possible fitment to the look and feel of the rest of the app. This...
  19. News

    Introducing Microsoft’s new Ad Monetization Platform

    Earlier this week, we kicked off our annual developer conference Microsoft Build in front of over 10,000 developers at Washington state convention center with viewers watching the event live around the world. During the keynote and other live sessions, we had several announcements that featured...
  20. News

    GameAnalytics SDK for Microsoft UWP Released

    We’re excited to announce our partnership with GameAnalytics, a powerful tool that helps developers understand player behavior so they can improve engagement, reduce churn and increase monetization. The tool gives game developers a central platform that consolidates player data from various...