Microsoft's guidance for Windows Phone users is to access Skype for Business, Teams, and Yammer via their web browser. In related news, Microsoft also noted last week that it will be removing a ...

While Teams may be the focal point of Microsoft’s current collaboration strategy these days, Yammer — the enterprise social network it acquired in 2012 for $1.2 billion — hasn’t been ...

Microsoft is discontinuing support for Skype for Business, Teams, and Yammer apps for Windows Phone. Development efforts will now be transitioned to the Android, iOS, and desktop counterparts.

In March, Microsoft will update the Communities app for Outlook and Yammer mobile apps for iOS and Android under the Viva Engage brand. Further elements of the rebrand will occur through 2023.

Microsoft has acquired Yammer for $1.2 billion, the companies announced Monday, June. 25. The deal had been an open secret for more than a week.

After the Microsoft deal closed, Yammer lowered its prices from around $15 per person per month to $3 per person per month. "So we are making up for that revenue in volume," Sacks says.

Microsoft has confirmed that it’s finally killing off Yammer, the enterprise social network it procured more than a decade ago for $1.2 billion. Yammer was initially created out of San Francisco ...

Microsoft isn’t disclosing Yammer’s revenue in dollar figures, but the growth and momentum—Yammer added 312 new customers in the quarter—is a validation of the $1.2 billion it paid for ...

Microsoft Teams on the new Surface Studio computer. Credit: Microsoft. It was only four years ago that Microsoft dropped a cool $1.2 billion on Yammer, which bills itself as a social network for work.

Teper’s response seemed reasonable to me, his vision is sound, yet Microsoft still needs to execute. According to Teper, there are three primary reasons why Microsoft bought Yammer for $1.2 billion.

Microsoft (MSFT) agreed to buy online social network firm Yammer for $1.2 billion in cash, which will allow the software company to offer a service like Facebook's to corporate customers.

Microsoft's SkyDrive Pro and Office Web Apps technologies will be tied more tightly into its Yammer enterprise-social-networking offering as of summer 2013.