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Office 365 gets some social-intelligence features
March 04, 2014 | Author: Adam Levine
Microsoft today unveiled major update to its online office suite Office 365, adding some new social tools with a smell of artificial intelligence. First, the office is now watching you: with whom you communicate via email, chat and voice communications (via Lync), to whom you share documents. And basing on this data it creates for you "groups" (like in the picture above . Then these groups appear in Outlook and Yammer social network and you'll be able to intelligently filter mail and discussions by group/topic. Another intelligent page is now showing the documents that Artificial Intelligence Office considers most relevant to you #rightnow. So if you come to work sleepy and it's difficult for you to understand what you are doing here - open this page and everything will become clear. Here is this page:
Other innovations - are more clear. The online file storage app OneDrive gets file comments for collaboration. Furthermore , OneDrive for Business, previously only available as a component in Office 365 and SharePoint, becomes a separate service and costs $1.50/month/user.
In addition, Office 365 adds video portal where you can upload videos and and share them with employees.
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