Microsoft suggests that the public sector might be particularly interested. The move is good news for organisations which, for compliance or regulatory reasons, really can't allow cloud data to drift offshore. The Brits (well, just over half of them) told the world back in 2016 that they were not keen on the antics taking place beyond the famed White Cliffs of Dover and so will welcome news that Microsoft has doubled the size of its Azure regions in the UK with the arrival of Availability Zones.

The preview functionality is also extended to Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, which can now be peeked at without having to download the things.

Going at things from the other direction, Slack has also emitted an add-in for Outlook, allowing users to spam forward emails to a chat channel rather than creating a nightmarish Reply-To-All email thread when group discussion is needed.Īttachments and notes can be added within the add-in to provide a bit of context.ĭocuments also get a bit of love, with the ability to attach a searchable and previewable OneDrive file, which looks similar to the Skype add-in released some months ago by Microsoft. The Calendar app will also automatically update a user's Slack status based on what is in the Outlook calendar. The thinking is that not having to switch apps and hunt for login links will make life easier for users happy to bathe in the warm waters of Slack. It will also send notifications when meetings are due to start, replete with a link for Skype for Business, Webex or Zoom. There'll be no ignoring meeting requests for Outlook users as the Calendar app for Slack will message users as soon as an invitation arrives. Slack gets cosier with Office 365ĭoubtless with a eye on the rise of Microsoft's Office 365-integrated Teams platform, hipster chat outfit Slack sought to retain its crown as the collaboration technology of choice by adding some enterprise-friendly features aimed at playing nicely with Redmond's productivity suite. Posting on the Skype forums, a Microsoft employee named Karah breathlessly announced the functionality, suggesting that sharing a phone's screen during a Skype call would be a neat way of sharing a PowerPoint presentation, doing some online shopping or, er, let users 'share your swipes on dating apps'.Ĭoming after Skype expressed its enthusiasm for capturing its users' 'special moments', we await this new feature with.

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