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• Microsoft: Teams now has 13M daily active users, outpacing rival Slack

  Microsoft has unveiled new Teams features aimed at front-line workers as it continues to push its team collaboration platform in a still-growing market.

• ‘There's no such thing as change fatigue’: Former UK Ministry of Defence CIO Mike Stone

  The KPMG global advisor talks about navigating geopolitics, driving cultural change and the most disruptive technology on the horizon

• Microsoft NZ Partner Awards 2019 submissions open

  Awards celebrate organisations that have empowered customers through the inventive use of Microsoft technology

• Microsoft beefs up OneDrive security

  Microsoft has announced changes to its OneDrive storage service that will let consumers protect some or even all of their cloud-stored documents.

• Slack or Teams? Many businesses opt for both

  Most organisations have at least two team chat apps, a situation that could lead to communication silos and problems for IT.

• Analysts react to Salesforce Tableau grab

  In what will be the largest acquisition in Salesforce history, “the move is not a big surprise,” according to Forrester VP and principal analyst Liz Herbert, speaking about the US $15.7 billion acquisition of analytics platform vendor Tableau.

• White House snubs call for New Zealand shooting response

  Says the US is "not currently in a position to join the endorsement," but will continue to support the overall goals in the Christchurch Call

• SAP takes ‘ecosystem’ approach to guide S/4HANA customers moving to the cloud

  Launches project ‘Embrace’ with Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and global strategic service partners

• From coffee bean to cup: Starbucks brews a blockchain-based supply chain with Microsoft

  While the coffee chain explores a new tracking system and mobile app, two surveys show that not everyone is fully on board with distributed ledger tech.

• Microsoft touts first managed blockchain service

  Microsoft has announced its first Azure-based, managed blockchain platform using JPM's Quorum enterprise-class distributed ledger technology.

• Microsoft market cap touches US$1 trillion, pulls above Apple

  ​Microsoft market value vaulted above the US$1 trillion mark for the first time in regular session trade on Thursday, pulling ahead of Apple and making it the most valuable US publicly traded company

• Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on human rights concern

  Microsoft concluded it would lead to innocent women and minorities being disproportionately held for questioning because the artificial intelligence has been trained on mostly white and male pictures.

• EU data supervisor probes EU bodies' software deals with Microsoft

  The 28-country European Union adopted the landmark General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) about a year ago, giving Europeans more control over their online information and privacy enforcers the power to impose hefty fines

• Microsoft introduces integrated Darktrace-a-like, Azure Sentinel

  Microsoft has announced an AI-powered security solution called Sentinel that is designed to integrate with the Azure public cloud platform.

• Microsoft workers demand it drop $480 million U.S. Army contract

  Though many governments want to draw upon the expertise of the biggest U.S. tech companies, employee resistance has added a new challenge to already complicated relationships.