Is Yammer dead? Microsoft announces major shift in focus to Viva Engage
Microsoft has announced its decision to discontinue Yammer, the enterprise social network it acquired over a decade ago for $1.2 billion. The origins of Yammer can be traced back to 2008 when co-founder David Sacks launched the startup at a TechCrunch event in San Francisco. The company successfully raised over $140 million in funding before it was acquired by Microsoft four years later.
In some regards, it is unexpected that the Yammer brand has endured for as long as it has. Despite Microsoft's endeavors to increase Yammer's user base by incorporating it into its core Office product suite, the company has shifted its focus to developing peripheral communication tools, such as Microsoft Teams, which it integrated with Yammer in 2019. Additionally, two years ago, Microsoft introduced Viva, an 'employee experience platform' that resembled the intranet solutions of the past. In the following months, Microsoft intensified its efforts on Viva, culminating in the launch of Viva Engage last year, which the company described as an 'evolution of the Yammer Communities app.'
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It had become increasingly evident that there was little room or necessity for Yammer in Microsoft's product portfolio, and maintaining two similar brands that served a comparable purpose was creating confusion. Consequently, Microsoft has decided to phase out the Yammer brand entirely and prioritize Viva Engage instead.
According to a blog post by Murali Sitaram, Vice President of Viva and Yammer, 'Over the last several months we’ve heard your feedback that having two apps surfacing similar experiences and the same services and content has introduced confusion and made it challenging to drive adoption and create clarity for end users.'
In essence, Yammer will be fully integrated into Viva Engage, with the branding gradually changing across the products throughout 2023. The process will begin with the transition of the existing Yammer mobile apps to Viva Engage in March, followed by the transition of the Yammer web app later this summer.
Are these articles AI generated?
Now the duplicates are more obvious.
This is below AI generated crap. It is copy of Microsoft Help website article without any relevant supporting text. Anyway you can find this information on many pages.
Yes, but why post the exact same article under a different title twice on the same day (19 march 2023), by two different writers?
1.) Excel Keyboard Shortcuts by Trevor Monteiro.
2.) 70+ Excel Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows by Priyanka Monteiro
Why oh why?
Yeah. Tell me more about “Priyanka Monteiro”. I’m dying to know. Indian-Portuguese bot ?
Probably they will announce that the taskbar will be placed at top, right or left, at your will.
Special event by they is a special crap for us.
If it’s Microsoft, don’t buy it.
Better brands at better prices elsewhere.
All new articles have zero count comments. :S
WTF? So, If I add one photo to 5 albums, will it count 5x on my storage?
It does not make any sense… on google photos, we can add photo to multiple albums, and it does not generate any additional space usage
I have O365 until end of this year, mostly for onedrive and probably will jump into google one
Photo storage must be kept free because customers chose gadgets just for photos and photos only.
What a nonsense. Does it mean that albums are de facto folders with copies of our pictures?
Sounds exactly like the poor coding Microsoft is known for in non-critical areas i.e. non Windows Core/Office Core.
I imagine a manager gave an employee the task to create the album feature with hardly any time so they just copied the folder feature with some cosmetic changes.
And now that they discovered what poor management results in do they go back and do the album feature properly?
Nope, just charge the customer twice.
Sounds like a go-getter that needs to be promoted for increasing sales and managing underlings “efficiently”, said the next layer of middle management.
When will those comments get fixed? Was every editor here replaced by AI and no one even works on this site?
Instead of a software company, Microsoft is now a fraud company.
For me this is proof that Microsoft has a back-door option into all accounts in their cloud.
quote “…… as the MSA key allowed the hacker group access to virtually any cloud account at Microsoft…..”
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so this MSA key which is available to MS officers can give access to all accounts in MS cloud.This is the backdoor that MS has into the cloud accounts. Lucky I never got any relevant files of mine in their (MS) cloud.
>”Now You: what is your theory?”
That someone handed an employee a briefcase full of cash and the employee allowed them access to all their accounts and systems.
Anything that requires 5-10 different coincidences to happen is highly unlikely. Occam’s razor.
Good reason to never login to your precious machine with a Microsoft a/c a.k.a. as the cloud.
The GAFAM are always very careless about our software automatically sending to them telemetry and crash dumps in our backs. It’s a reminder not to send them anything when it’s possible to opt out, and not to opt in, considering what they may contain. And there is irony in this carelessness biting them back, even if in that case they show that they are much more cautious when it’s their own data that is at stake.