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Microsoft has announced that they have acquired Minit, a leader in process mining technology that enables businesses to uncover opportunities for continuous process improvement and better operational efficiency.
 

Microsoft has announced the upcoming launch of a new US Government cloud environment: Office 365 Government Secret which is currently in government review pending accreditation and targeting availability starting mid-2022.  This environment is built to support the US Federal Civilian, Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), and US government partners working within the Secret enclave with Microsoft’s best-in-class software as a service (SaaS) capabilities.
 

Microsoft is continuously working to improve the service by releasing timely updates for Microsoft Teams.  In this post, I’ll provide a roundup of off the latest feature updates released in March.
 

Microsoft is announcing new Office product innovations designed to help make hybrid work, work. Whether it’s creating more engaging meeting experiences, enabling collaboration with external partners or customers, or giving you the flexibility to work on your terms, these new features and solutions address the new expectations people have for the workplace.
 

Through Microsoft Teams, you can securely collaborate with external stakeholders. And with Teams Connect Microsoft is making it easier to collaborate with those inside and outside your organization. With shared channels, multiple organizations can work together in a shared space. Have conversations, schedule a meeting, share, and co-author files, and collaborate on apps, without ever switching tenants.
 

Microsoft has introduced a new Jira app for Microsoft Teams. The app allows you to create and comment on existing issues without having to open a new browser tab or application for Jira. It also supports customizable Jira notifications through Teams, searching through Jira from a Teams chat, and improved link cards that are actionable.
 

Microsoft is releasing a new feature that will introduce a new tenant-wide idle session timeout feature for Microsoft 365 web apps that’s designed to prevent information exposure that might stem from unauthorized access to systems left unattended.
 

Office app on mobile is launching Activity Center on iPads and tablets to enable users to stay on top of all their required activity and notifications.
 

Microsoft are adding the capability to pin shared document libraries to the Quick Access section in OneDrive (web) to easily find and access the places where you regularly work. They are also surfacing a list of your recently used shared libraries on the More Places page within OneDrive to help you find the places that you’ve recently opened files from. 

Microsoft is working to make it easier to communicate with people in Ukraine. The latest Insider build of Skype and Microsoft Teams will include several features that are part of Microsoft's Ukraine-centric efforts, including the ability to make free phone calls to Ukraine.
 

Microsoft is updating their search engine to feature People-centric features. According to Microsoft “this update will allow people in your organization to find content through people and understand people through their content.”
 

Currently large folders cannot be deleted from OneDrive and SharePoint Document Libraries on web. Now, Microsoft is working on a new update for its cloud storage service that will allow users to delete large folders on Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint Document Libraries on web.
 

Microsoft is actively developing useful new features for Microsoft Teams to make it a better platform for virtual collaboration. According to Microsoft 365 roadmap page, the company is currently working on as many as 121 new features for Teams, all of them are expected to be rolled out to the users by the end of this year. While not all upcoming features will be useful for everyone, the addition of the text predictions feature in Teams is something pretty much everybody will appreciate.
 

If you work for multiple organizations that use Microsoft 365, and you also use the service for personal reasons, you might understand the pain of having different accounts. This is because Microsoft only lets you use one account on Microsoft 365 on the web apps at a time. Yet that is soon changing as Microsoft is now finally working on account switching for Microsoft 365 web apps.