SymphonyAI’s IRIS Foundry is now embedded directly into Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), bringing real‑time industrial intelligence, automated workflows, and role‑based copilots into the flow of frontline work—and changing how manufacturing and...
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SymphonyAI’s IRIS Foundry now appears directly inside Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, promising to move industrial AI from dashboards and backrooms into the daily workflows of plant operators and frontline teams—using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect OT data, AI reasoning...
Microsoft and the European Commission have reached a binding settlement that will reshape how Microsoft 365, Office 365, and Microsoft Teams are sold and integrated across Europe — and, in practice, globally — by enforcing unbundling, minimum price deltas, expanded interoperability APIs, and...
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Microsoft’s internal account of how Teams has evolved into an AI-first collaboration platform reads less like a product update and more like a blueprint for how large organizations will work in the next decade: Teams as the connective tissue, AI agents as the operational workforce, and Copilot...
Microsoft’s decision to formally separate Teams from Office 365/Microsoft 365 marks the close of a high‑stakes regulatory chapter and creates a new competitive baseline for enterprise collaboration tools worldwide. The European Commission and Microsoft reached a negotiated package of commitments...
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Microsoft Teams’ August update is a substantial one: Microsoft rolled out 26 new features across chat, meetings, Teams Phone, workplace Places, frontline scenarios, security tooling, and device certification — blending productivity tweaks, admin controls (notably for Copilot), and several Teams...
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Microsoft's latest Windows 11 update brings a long‑awaited fix for muffled Bluetooth headset audio: support for Bluetooth LE Audio's super‑wideband stereo, letting game audio remain high‑fidelity while voice chat or calls run at a much higher sample rate than the old Hands‑Free Profile allowed...
Microsoft’s internal use of AI to “recap” meetings has moved from experiment to everyday practice, with Microsoft Teams Premium now delivering a suite of AI-powered recap tools — Intelligent Recap, Audio Recap, the Interpreter agent, and the Facilitator — that together change how employees catch...
Microsoft Teams is rolling out two platform-level protections meant to stop weaponized files and scammy links from arriving in users’ chats and channels, a change that shifts the battleground for collaboration security from reactive investigation to proactive blocking.
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AudioCodes' Voca Conversational Interaction Center (CIC) has been certified under Microsoft’s Teams Unify model and immediately leveraged that validation to claim another industry accolade — winning UC Today’s 2025 Best Microsoft Teams Contact Center award — a development that tightens the...
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If you opened Microsoft Teams this morning and discovered channels that used to live in your team have vanished—or the Teams button and channel lists simply aren’t where they used to be—don’t panic. This is a common, usually reversible issue that has two broad roots: deliberate UI changes...
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Microsoft Teams is getting a tighter security posture: Microsoft is rolling out new protections that will block weaponizable file types in chats and channels, scan and warn about malicious URLs at the time of delivery and click, and extend administrative control by integrating Teams with the...
Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE-2025-53783 as a heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Teams that “allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network,” but the advisory page requires JavaScript and cannot be fully scraped by some automated tools; independent indexing of...
CellTrust’s SL2 is now listed in Microsoft AppSource and the Microsoft Teams store, bringing its enterprise-grade mobile messaging capture and compliance tooling directly into the Microsoft collaboration stack and making it easier for regulated organisations to deploy mobile communications...
Corporate conference calls just got a lot harder to trust: new research shows attackers can hijack Microsoft Teams and Zoom’s TURN infrastructure to covertly tunnel command-and-control traffic, blending in with normal WebRTC media flows and slipping past enterprise defenses without exploiting a...
Tata Tele Business Services (TTBS) has recently partnered with Property Dot Com to implement Microsoft 365, aiming to enhance operational efficiency and collaboration within the real estate sector. This strategic move underscores the growing trend of digital transformation in the industry, where...
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A major update is on the horizon for Microsoft Teams and Outlook, as Microsoft signals a new phase of user interface refinement for its Copilot Chat feature, closely aligning the tools’ look and feel while making incremental—but not revolutionary—improvements. This latest change, recently...
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Microsoft Teams is rapidly evolving its security posture, ushering in a new era of transparency and control for enterprise collaboration. In its latest wave of updates, Microsoft has significantly advanced its audit logging capabilities within Teams meetings, offering IT administrators...
Microsoft's July 2025 updates to Microsoft 365 introduce a suite of enhancements aimed at improving collaboration, communication, and security across its applications. These updates reflect Microsoft's commitment to evolving its tools to meet the dynamic needs of modern workplaces.
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As vehicles evolve from simple means of transportation into high-tech, mobile command centers, the lines separating personal, professional, and driving time are becoming increasingly blurred. Nowhere is this trend more pronounced than in the recent collaboration between Microsoft and...