

Continue readingĪfter cancelling its contentious Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) Cloud contract solicitation in July, the US Department of Defense (DoD) promised a followup request for proposals to provide cloud services for national defense under a less catchy acronym, the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC).


If you prefer to avoid such things, both services have no-cost forks: Ferdi from Franz and Hamsket from RamBox.
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Both use the "freemium" model: there's a completely functional free client, plus subscriptions for extra features. There are a few of these around – first came RamBox, followed by Franz. There is a brute-force way round this: have one app that embeds lots of separate Electron instances in tabs. Which is fine, but Chrome is famously memory-hungry. Most of these "clients" are JavaScript web apps anyway, running inside Electron – an embedded Chromium-based single-site browser.
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There's no need for this: there are free open standards for one-to-one and one-to-many comms for precisely this sort of system, and some venerable clients are still a lot more capable than you might remember.īut as it is today, if you need to be on more than one chat system at once, the official way is to install their client app, meaning multiple clients – or at best, multiple tabs open in your web browsers. Most modern chat systems are entirely proprietary: proprietary clients, talking proprietary protocols to proprietary servers. And it's ending support for Internet Explorer in Microsoft 365, for your own good. Microsoft will also throw in unlimited dial-in capabilities for Microsoft Teams meetings across our enterprise, business, frontline, and government suites in the coming months. How much would you pay for all this sweet suite, this cornucopia of digital diligence? Wait! Don't answer yet. Spataro also highlighted the addition of real-time collaboration in the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint desktop apps, the many security and compliance enhancements like data loss prevention (DLP) for email and documents, and AI enhancements that arrange data and translate text. And that's to say nothing about apps from Adobe, Atlassian, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, and Workday that have been connected to Teams. Someone had to wire up all the collaborative apps in Teams like Power Platform, Whiteboard, Lists, Planner, Shifts, Forms, and SharePoint. Microsoft made $167m a day in profit, every day, over the past 12 months.Office 365 Exchange enjoys a less than manic Monday.UK reseller sues Microsoft for £270m in damages claiming prohibitive contracts choke off surplus Office licence supplies.Only plebs use Office 2019 over Office 365, says Microsoft's weird new ad campaign."In 2020 alone we released over 300 new capabilities including Together mode, background effects, large gallery view, raise hand, live reactions, breakout rooms, live captions with speaker attribution, and Fluid components, just to name a few," he said.

What's more, Spataro points out, Microsoft engineers have added more than 1,400 new bells and whistles in the past four years, particularly in tools like Teams.
