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.

When using SharePoint 2013, the new social features are apparent in everything you do, and the integration with Yammer shows promise as well. In this article, I’ll talk about the seamless ...

For example, I have a new customer and create an Office 365 Group for my internal team, giving myself, ... Yammer allows you to tap into the collective wisdom and experience of your organization.

Yammer is giving itself a major refresh on Tuesday with the unveiling of several major new upgrades dedicated to the user interface and experience. Overall, the goals of the latest changes are ...

For example, Yammer will be hooked into the Office 365 Groups service in the first half of this year, which will let customers do things like turning Yammer conversations into Skype calls ...

Marc Benioff is putting on a typically grand show this week in San Francisco. It feels more political convention than tech confab, with surprise guests and post-keynote wrap up shows. One of ...

Microsoft bought Yammer in 2012 for $1.2 billion. Since then Microsoft's Office team has learned quite a bit from Yammer, including how to more rapidly iterate.And it modeled its Office Graph ...

Yammer, which launched as the "Twitter for businesses" at TechCrunch 50 in 2008, is launching the next-gen version of its platform today. Aiming to be a full-fledged social network for the ...

Skype, for example, another recent acquisition, has been given a long leash. Former Microsoft purchases were not. aQuantive, for example, a multi-billion dollar pick up, flopped publicly after ...

Bring Yammer conversations into intranet sites. I often find myself adding Yammer communities to intranet sites to create a conversation space. For example, if I have an Executive Corner intranet ...

Yammer may still be known as the startup that offers “Twitter for the enterprise,” but it continues adding features that differentiate it from Twitter and make it a more powerful business tool.