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Times They Are A-Changing, Web & Technology

This is Microsoft’s vision for the future of meetings – The Verge

Microsoft gets ready to blend remote and physical meetings

By Tom Warren@tomwarren, May 21, 2021, 9:00am EDT

Microsoft Teams: The Future of Meetings

Microsoft is outlining its vision for the future of meetings today.

After a year that’s seen more people dialing into the office remotely, the company is once again banging the drum for hybrid work: a model that combines remote access with in-person work.

While the company has been teasing new concepts for Microsoft Teams in recent months, it’s now starting to bring to life an updated interface for the communications software that will help blend remote colleagues into physical meeting rooms.

Source: This is Microsoft’s vision for the future of meetings – The Verge

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Microsoft revealed the latest truths about working from home. One is truly disturbing | ZDNet

As many drift from working from home to a more hybrid model, what has been lost? And who has really, really gained? Microsoft knows things aren’t good.

Solving for the impossible?

By Chris Matyszczyk for Technically Incorrect | April 4, 2021 — 12:00 GMT (05:00 PDT) | Topic: Working from home: How to get remote work right

The headline wasn’t all that promising: “The Next Great Disruption Is Hybrid Work — Are We Ready?”

No, of course we’re not ready. We were never ready for the pandemic. We were never ready for mass working from home. We’re never ready.

This headline came from a company that itself wasn’t exactly ready for working from home, Microsoft. Right beneath its nostrils, a company called Zoom came along and stole hegemony over a means of communication that Microsoft might, itself, have already mastered.

Source: Microsoft revealed the latest truths about working from home. One is truly disturbing | ZDNet