Microsoft is implementing a centralized notification feed for its Microsoft 365 suite of workplace software program that it says will present a “mixture of related content material” for the content material customers have entry to, or that will get shared with them.

Quietly introduced (opens in new tab) as a part of the Microsoft 365 roadmap in December 2022 and slated for launch in January 2023, the function, dubbed Microsoft Feed, is little doubt a part of an effort to make the collaboration software program have a extra, nicely, collaborative really feel.

The information comes shortly after a separate announcement on the firm’s annual Ignite occasion in October 2022 (opens in new tab) that Microsoft 365 is being ported to a single desktop and cell software, which can little doubt make the job of constructing the suite really feel like an ecosystem a lot simpler.

Collaboration options for companies

Microsoft additionally used this 12 months’s Ignite occasion to announce that its My Content material hub, which collates all of a consumer’s paperwork below one tab no matter which 365 software they have been designed in, is now accessible to all of its customers.

Although each Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace are the market leaders in terms of office collaboration instruments, an intuitive, centralised hub throughout the entire suite appears to be simpler stated than carried out for both firm.

Even with the strides it’s making, Microsoft, for its half, appears extra dedicated to solely providing true centralised instruments and interfaces to firm bosses and IT admins.

Google itself seems targeted on cleansing up the consumer interface of expertise inside its particular person Workspace apps than a centralised expertise. An replace for Google Drive in June 2022, as an example, made it simpler to share recordsdata by bringing choices below one centralised panel.

Microsoft could also be trying to capitalise on Google’s inaction, and court docket customers nonetheless on the fence about office collaboration software program with an providing that’s merely simpler to make use of. Its newest raft of bulletins would possibly definitely put them within the lead.

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