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Microsoft Teams Owes Success to ‘Digitization’ of Space, Time: VP

Microsoft believes Teams can “coalesce” the “critical mass of capabilities” that hybrid workplaces will need much like smartphones obviated the need for consumers to carry separate flip phones, MP3 players and cameras, Corporate Vice President Jared Spataro told a Jeffries…

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virtual investor conference Wednesday. Microsoft sees “such an opportunity” for Teams to become as essential to employees as Outlook and the Microsoft Office suite, he said. “As we think about the first digital revolution of our business,” it was using “PC power” to promote “the digitization of paperwork,” he said. The digital transformation “we're all going through right now” is about the “digitization of space and of time,” he said. “We believe every company is going to need an organizing layer that allows them to transcend the space and time,” by bringing employees together “even when they're not physically together,” he said.