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July 24, 2020

Enterprise mobility 2020: In a pandemic, UEM to the rescue

IT departments should accelerate their adoption of unified endpoint management to get through the current crisis — and to lay the groundwork for long-term success. Read more ▶

Image: Download: EMM vendor comparison chart 2020

Download: EMM vendor comparison chart 2020

As enterprise mobility management (EMM) suites continue their evolution into unified endpoint management (UEM), our chart lets you quickly compare features and functions from eight top vendors.

Slack files EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft, cites anti-competitive Teams bundling

The team chat software maker argues that Microsoft is forcing millions of customers to install Teams – and hopes to kill Slack in the process.

Inspire 2020: Microsoft Teams gets Rooms Premium, DataFlex, new frontline worker features

Teams Rooms Premium is a new a 24/7 management and monitoring service available from Microsoft and its partners; it costs $50 per device monthly.

Woody Leonhard: Microsoft releases some 'optional, non-security, C/D Week' Win10 patches. Avoid them.

In a return to its boorish behavior, Microsoft released several Windows 10 patches, presumably to preview non-security fixes as well as another .NET preview. Microsoft had stopped releasing middle-of-the-month patches in March, citing “the public health situation.” The patches are back anyway.

JR Raphael: The creator of Inbox is ready to save Google from itself

A former Googler who helped shape Gmail and then came up with Inbox has a plan for fixing the company's design sins in a totally different way.

Jonny Evans: Jamf CEO: 'Technology has become the entire employee experience'

COVID-19 has accelerated digital transformation and the old ways are not coming back. “We’ve seen the greatest movement of the workforce into their homes in all of history,” said Jamf CEO Dean Hager as the enterprise vendor launches successful IPO.

Susan Hanley: Which is better for collaboration – Yammer or Microsoft Teams?

Fundamentally, both Yammer and Teams (and email) are about conversation – but they support different types of communication and are for different audiences. The choice about which app to use depends on both.

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