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Because it’s the most wonderful time of a less than wonderful year, this edition of Short Takes looks at Microsoft’s 2020 holiday commercial, Salesforce wastes $27.7 billion, Microsoft’s controversy of the week, 1100 new Teams features, yet another way to update Windows 10, and so much more.

Starting on Monday, November 30th, and running for the next three weeks, Amazon has launched its annual AWS re:Invent conference. In most years the conference spans several different properties in Las Vegas and runs over the course of a few days. Last year’s re:Invent conference had over 60,000 attendees. This year, like all of the…

New machine-learning backed password spray attack detection spots twice the number of compromised accounts.

Following Personal Support in Teams Mobile Clients On November 19, just before things started to wind down for the Thanksgiving holidays, Microsoft announced the preview of “personal” features in the Teams desktop and browser clients. Preview availability for personal features on desktop (Windows only) and browsers follows up the debut of Teams at home for…

SalesForce has announced that it will be buying Slack for $27.7 billion – a 28x Net Twelve Months Revenue. To do this, Salesforce will be paying $26.79 in cash + 0.0776 shares of common stock for each share of Slack.

This month the theme seems to be the product formally known as Common Data Service. Thankfully they didn’t change its name to a symbol, instead, they now call it Dataverse

It was a busy month for Office 365 updates but these are the items you need to know about.

Microsoft is starting to roll out a significant update to the Teams expereince with some features arriving today and others in early 2021.

November brings a new version of Edge in the Stable Channel, Windows Feature Experience Packs for Insiders, and news of a hardware security architecture designed to protect Windows 10 devices against physical attack.

November has come and gone but for those looking to catch-up on Azure, here’s what you need to know.

Intrusive Usage Data Exposed in Microsoft 365 Admin Center Over the past few week or so, a bunch of news reports have emerged about the new Microsoft 365 Productivity Score feature (Figure 1), which was announced at the Ignite 2019 conference before achieving general availability in October 2020. In the Microsoft blog, CVP Brad Anderson…