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| | | Microsoft Will Modify Its Productivity Score Tool After Snooping Criticism | | Microsoft will modify the Productivity Score function of Microsoft 365 following privacy concerns. The company rolled out the tool in October to help companies understand how workers adopt and use technology. It provides scores out of 100 on several factors, including communications and teamwork. | | via Engadget | | |
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| | | The Importance of Limiting the Risk of Unauthorized SaaS Applications | | Our recent 2020 State of SaaSOps survey found that organizations use an average of 80 SaaS applications, which is a 10x increase in SaaS apps since 2015. We’ve also found that enterprise organizations generally have twice as many SaaS apps. It’s clear that shadow IT and SaaS sprawl is bigger than any IT administrator is currently aware of. That’s why it’s critical to look at hidden risks of unauthorized SaaS apps, and how to limit risk to remain in compliance with security policies. | | via BetterCloud Monitor | | |
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| | | Amazon Web Services Adds macOS on Bare Metal to EC2 | | Amazon Web Services and Apple have partnered to bring modern cloud-provisioning capabilities to the macOS platform, with Tuesday morning's launch of the new mac1.metal ECS instance type. In something of a departure from Amazon's usual cloud fare, the new instance types aren't virtual machines at all—they're Mac Mini systems, bolted in pairs to 1U rack-mount sleds. | | via Ars Technica | | |
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| | | Where Is the Qualcomm Snapdragon That Will Challenge Apple’s M1 Macs? | | Just three weeks after Apple knocked it out of the park with its Arm-based M1 chip, you might have thought Qualcomm would have something to say about its own Arm chips for PCs at its yearly Snapdragon Tech Summit. It didn’t. The company’s silence suggests that the refreshed Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 5G announced in September is not going to swing for the fences itself. | | via PCWorld | | |
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| | | Anyone Have Recommendations on Live Event SaaS? | | Can you remember the last time you attended a large in-person event? Yeah, neither can we. But that hasn't changed the need for company all-hands meetings and other similar events. That's why so many folks in the SaaSOps Community are discussing which SaaS apps are best for live events. Check out what they're using by clicking the link above. | | via SaaSOps Community | | |
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| | | How to Use Microsoft Teams’ Built-In Wiki | | A wiki—a collaboratively-maintained online publication—is a type of content management system that can be anything from a single page to a vast trove of information like Wikipedia. Microsoft Teams includes a wiki as one of the default tabs in every channel that’s created. Here's how to use it. | | via How-To Geek | | |
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| | | How to Fix Audio Level Problems in Windows 10 | | Windows 10 includes a custom volume mixer, which sounds like a great idea on paper—who wouldn’t a way to control the volume of individual apps? It’s incredibly useful when you need to dial back your game audio a bit so you can hear your guildmates on Discord (or the YouTube video you’re listening to in the background). | | via Lifehacker | | |
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| | | SaaSUPDATES | | | | | | Here are the latest product updates to the SaaS apps that power your digital workplace. | | |
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