Microsoft announcement on Tuesday that they are adding a
great new social feature when working on documents in there cloud based
platform Office 365.
‘Document conversations’ will appear on the
right hand side of your work, allowing you to chat and collaborate with your
co-workers while still working on that all important document. So what are the
clauses?
Well firstly, you’ll only be
able to use this new feature with documents saved into Microsoft's cloud via
SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business. Secondly, Office 365 users need to
be using Office Online apps to access this Yammer chatting capability, so the
offline version of Office 2013 won’t be seeing this feature anytime soon.
Yammer aren’t just opening
this feature up to typical Office online files, it will also work with 30 file
types, including Adobe Reader files (.PDF), video files (.MP4, .AVI) and
graphics formats (.PNG and .GIF).
The documents get tracked
using Microsoft's Graph protocol that was described back in March. If you need to rename
a file – don’t worry, it gets tracked via a new link. Subsequent conversations
then get associated with that new file link, it’s as simple as that. Graph is a
new information fabric for Office 365 that works across Exchange Online,
SharePoint Online and Yammer. It supports a new search capability, code-named
"Oslo," and a new "Groups" capability, both of which are
planned for release sometime this year for Office 365 subscribers.
It’s great to see Microsoft are bringing some of
their products like Yammer and Office 365 together, it’s important for a user
to have a great experience with lots of product’s in the same product, if you
get my drift.
I for one am looking forward to getting the
update.
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