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Viva Engage, Microsoft's slick message board designed to compete with Slack, is often touted as "Facebook for work." In October, according to internal messages viewed by BI, a Microsoft employee shared a post praising child tax credits as a way to reduce poverty. Employees with pro-Palestinian views have also used inflammatory language in their posts on Viva Engage. It has cut off the comments to Viva Engage posts it considered too incendiary. "It's important to recognize the pain and suffering of so many people, including our colleagues, as the events in Israel, Gaza, and the surrounding region continue to unfold," Nadella wrote.
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Microsoft shut down a discussion between employees about the Israel-Hamas war, internal messages show. "Amidst the ongoing Palestinian Israeli war, it saddens me to witness a company that so strongly promotes Diversity and Inclusion show such strong discrimination and marginalization," the person wrote. The post does not specifically reference which comments from senior leaders the employee viewed as biased. "We have Palestinian employees globally who are deeply concerned for the safety of their loved ones in the region and stand against these acts of terrorism." Are you a Microsoft employee?
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Zoom execs told employees Workvivo wins 80% of sales versus Microsoft's "clunky" competitor, Viva. Zoom earlier this year acquired the Irish employee engagement platform Workvivo founded in 2017. Microsoft introduced its own, similarly named Viva employee engagement platform in 2021 and earlier this year updated it to include its employee message board Yammer, now called Viva Engage. Workvivo Head of Sales DJ Cahill told employees that when Zoom's product is competing with Microsoft Viva, Workvivo wins 70% to 80% of those sales. Employee engagement software is a relatively young market that combines workplace chat tools with areas for corporate news, employee goal tracking, employee directories and the like.
Persons: Zoom execs, Workvivo, DJ Cahill, Cahill, Eric Yuan, execs, , Yuan, Ashley Stewart Organizations: Microsoft, Viva Engage, Microsoft Viva
Microsoft set to report earnings after the bell
  + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Microsoft will report fiscal first-quarter results after market close on Tuesday. Here's what analysts are expecting:Earnings: $2.30 per share, adjusted, as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. $2.30 per share, adjusted, as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. Analysts are looking for $49.61 billion in revenue from Microsoft in the fiscal first quarter, which ended on Sept. 30. That would represent 9.5% revenue growth year over year, which would be the slowest growth since 2017.
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