Mary Jo Foley

Senior Contributing Editor

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Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a variety of publications, including ZDNET, eWeek, and Baseline. She is the author of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in the post-Gates era (John Wiley & Sons,… 2008). She also is the co-host of the "Windows Weekly" podcast on the TWiT network. Got a tip? Send her an email with your rants, rumors, tips, and tattles. Confidentiality guaranteed.

Freelance journalist/blogger Mary Jo Foley has nothing to disclose. WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). I do not own Microsoft stock or stock in any of its partners or competitors. I have done paid speaking engagements for Microsoft and some of its partners, but none where all the content is not my own.

Latest from Mary Jo Foley

Microsoft to drop its Kaizala group-messaging service in 2023

Microsoft plans to discontinue its Kaizala large-group messaging service as of August 2023 and will offer Teams in its place.

August 26, 2022 by Mary Jo Foley in Collaboration

Microsoft to roll out native Teams app optimized for Apple silicon in the coming months

Microsoft's new universal-binary version of Teams for Mac will run natively on whichever underlying architecture powers users' devices.

August 3, 2022 by Mary Jo Foley in Collaboration

Microsoft serves up lots of Teams numbers to demonstrate growth (except the latest number of users)

Microsoft's cloud businesses are continuing to grow during a challenging macro environment, but exactly how much is a bit tricky to determine.

July 26, 2022 by Mary Jo Foley in Collaboration

Microsoft is adding echo cancellation, anti-interruption features to Teams

Microsoft is using machine-learning models to improve further the audio functionality in Teams.

June 13, 2022 by Mary Jo Foley in Collaboration

Microsoft Teams and Power Platform to get more collaboration, AI-assisted additions

Microsoft is previewing a bunch of new capabilities for Teams and Power Platform developers, including a new capability to scan images and create custom Power Apps controls directly from them.

May 24, 2022 by Mary Jo Foley in Collaboration

Microsoft's Teams app is coming to the Microsoft Store

It will finally be available for download from the Store as of May 2022.

April 21, 2022 by Mary Jo Foley in Collaboration

Microsoft starts rolling out Teams 'Front Row' view for better hybrid meetings

Microsoft's Front Row feature for Teams Rooms is meant to blur the lines between virtual and in-person meetings participants.

February 1, 2022 by Mary Jo Foley in Collaboration

Microsoft: Teams now has more than 270 million monthly active users

Microsoft officials also say the company is now up to 1.4 billion monthly active users of Windows 10 and 11 devices combined.

January 25, 2022 by Mary Jo Foley in Collaboration

Microsoft adds more Teams, Viva features for frontline workers

Microsoft isn't only targeting information workers with its Teams collaboration and Viva employee-engagement products. It's also redoubling its efforts to reach frontline workers with them.

January 12, 2022 by Mary Jo Foley in Collaboration

Microsoft is rolling out the ability to chat across personal and business Teams accounts

Teams consumer and enterprise users will be able to chat between the two platforms by mid-January.

January 11, 2022 by Mary Jo Foley in Collaboration

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