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• Microsoft pushes Fluid to boost productivity in Teams, Outlook, and OneNote

  21-06-2021 19:00
  
  Microsoft will expand the use of its Fluid components to a wider range of productivity and collaboration tools, including Outlook, OneNote, and Whiteboard — part of the company’s ongoing effort to change how people interact with documents.Fluid components – heralded by Microsoft as “atomic units of productivity” when they were  launched two years ago – are small apps such as tables, charts, and lists that can be inserted into different Microsoft 365 tool
  
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• Apple’s SharePlay vision: Too little, too late?

  21-06-2021 16:57
  
  Apple has made several attempts that nod in the same direction as its new SharePlay service, announced at WWDC 2021. Looking back, you’ll see that Apple has made attempts in what became the social media space, with Ping the most widely known failure.Of course, Apple’s failures in social media now look like success, given the corrosive impact some services have had. “Platforms and algorithms that promised to improve our lives can actually magnify our worst human tende
  
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• ‘Chrome OS’ on any device: Deploying CloudReady in the enterprise

  21-06-2021 12:00
  
  Whether you’ve been transitioning applications to the cloud over the years or were forced there quickly in 2020, you might be considering deploying Chromebooks to your users. Their lower cost is especially attractive if you’re trying to provide devices for a boom in remote workers.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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