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Unity’s Marc Whitten shares apology note following backlash to controversial licensing policies

GeekWire

(LinkedIn Photo) After more than a week of controversy, Unity Technologies posted an apology letter to its community and promised to undo or rollback many of the changes it had planned to make to the licensing agreements for its game engine Unity. Whitten is a Microsoft veteran and one of the founding members of the Xbox design team.

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MicroSoft: Still dominating in enterprise office automation

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All enterprise professionals should continue to track MicroSoft ( NASDAQ:MSFT ). We focus most of our energy tracking smaller, more disruptive firms since most enterprise technologists will know how to get updates on MicroSoft, but like the other Tech Titans we track we have to keep an eye out for surprises. What Is Microsoft HoloLens?

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Microsoft buys AI speech tech company Nuance for $19.7 billion

The Verge

Microsoft is buying AI speech tech firm Nuance for $19.7 Microsoft will pay $56 per share for Nuance, a 23 percent premium over the company’s closing price last Friday. Nuance has licensed this tech for many services and applications, including, most famously, Apple’s digital assistant Siri. The deal includes Nuance’s net debt.

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The Death of Microsoft Office - When Will Collaborative Tools Disrupt?

Social, Agile and Transformation

Last week, Microsoft announced that mobile and tablet versions of its Office applications would be free. Most companies and enterprises spend a good deal of money yearly on user computing devices and Microsoft licenses. future of work in the news microsoft organizational change' The question is, should we care?

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Microsoft’s ‘Verified ID’ will confirm that LinkedIn members actually work where they say they do

GeekWire

Employees of companies that issue credentials using Microsoft’s Verified ID will see a prompt in LinkedIn to verify their workplace. LinkedIn will offer a new workplace verification system that uses Microsoft Entra Verified ID to issue credentials. Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for more than $26 billion in 2016.

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Microsoft’s resurgence: Reflecting on Satya Nadella’s leadership, a decade after he became CEO

GeekWire

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Microsoft Build developer conference in Seattle in May 2019. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) When I met Satya Nadella in 1992, we were both engineers at Microsoft, and I never would have guessed we’d go on to be life-long friends or that he’d end up running the company for over a decade.

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Microsoft says U.S. should copy Australian law targeting Google and Facebook over news content

GeekWire

Microsoft President Brad Smith. Microsoft likes Australia’s plan to make Google and Facebook pay local publishers for content included in search results or news feeds so much that the company thinks the U.S. It should copy it instead,” Microsoft President Brad Smith wrote in a blog post Thursday.