Why is MDEP Taking So Long?
Listening to the “TalkingPointz Chatz” podcast featuring Dave Michels and David Danto about the current state of Microsoft’s MDEP was an enlightening experience. Two key insights stood out to me: that MDEP is taking far longer than expected to come…
Certified Confusing
There are a handful of topics in enterprise video communications that will always raise sensitivity and opinions. One example is Interoperability – how one firm’s systems and platforms work with another firm’s systems and platforms. We’ve been arguing about that…
Camera Arrays
In 2015 I wrote a series of blogs titled “the past and future of the videoconference room” imagining future solutions. I detailed what I felt would reinvent room cameras, turning them into what I called “Camera Arrays.” I picked that…
One Million Meeting Rooms
Microsoft announced it was what we beleive to be the first Meetings provider to reach one million connected meeting rooms. Just for fun, it also dropped that it has 20 million PSTN users! HUGE. The two Daves discuss the accomplishment,…
Cisco and Microsoft partnership goes beyond just product certification
What started as just another Microsoft hardware announcement might shift the UC tide At last week’s Enterprise Connect, Microsoft and Cisco surprised some of the industry by participating in each other’s keynotes. This move signaled continued alignment between the two…
Microsoft Copilot – Teams Edition
Can We Trust AI with the Specifics? Meetings. We want less of them, and yet we want more out of them. Microsoft Teams announced their own meeting optimizers at last week’s AI event, with more undoubtedly coming next week at…
Microsoft Copilot – Smooth AI Operator?
Microsoft and Google productivity platforms both “entered the chat” this week, and just like that, we are all trying to understand how this new wave of AI will impact some of our most critical applications. While I am admittedly still…