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Craig Durr, The Collab Collective: Why the Device Market Forecast Dropped From 6% to 3%

Craig Durr, The Collab Collective: Why the Device Market Forecast Dropped From 6% to 3%

Craig Durr, Chief Analyst and Founder at The Collab Collective and a former group video product lead at Polycom/Poly, walks through his annual five-year video conferencing device forecast and explains why he has cut the compound annual growth rate from around 6% to just under 3%.

Microsoft 365 AI Workplace Update July 2026

Microsoft 365 AI Workplace Update July 2026

It's the start of Microsoft's new fiscal year — and there's plenty to unpack. Inside: the new $2.5B Microsoft Frontier company, Copilot Cowork going GA (and what it really costs), new Copilot models and experiences.

Microsoft Teams Phone and Recording - API Integrations, Automations - Ben Richardson at SmartSearch

Microsoft Teams Phone and Recording - API Integrations, Automations - Ben Richardson at SmartSearch

Ben Richardson, Infrastructure Engineer at anti-money laundering and identity verification platform SmartSearch, joins Andy Whiteside, VP of Sales at Numonix, to explain how a 200-person business replaced an end-of-life on-premises call recorder with cloud recording for Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft Copilot Cowork Explained by Microsoft Experts - Use Cases, Pricing and Best Practices

Microsoft Copilot Cowork Explained by Microsoft Experts - Use Cases, Pricing and Best Practices

Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork hit GA on 16 June 2026, turning Copilot from assistant into digital colleague. Alev Tamer (Microsoft) and Femke Cornelissen (Wortell, MVP) cover the new models including Cowork 1, DLP and sensitivity label support, plugins, skills management and how Cowork differs from…

Barco ClickShare Hub, Bring Wireless BYOD to your Microsoft Teams Rooms

Barco ClickShare Hub, Bring Wireless BYOD to your Microsoft Teams Rooms

Pieter Vancoillie, Product Manager for ClickShare, at Barco gives an update on the ClickShare Hub and its latest wireless BYOD functionality for Microsoft Teams Rooms.

How Microsoft, Zoom, and Cisco Are Approaching AI Differently With Kevin Kieller, enableUC

How Microsoft, Zoom, and Cisco Are Approaching AI Differently With Kevin Kieller, enableUC

Kevin Kieller, co-founder and lead analyst at enableUC, splits his time between enterprise consulting and advising vendors on competitive positioning. He compares how Microsoft, Zoom and Cisco are each approaching AI, and where pricing, data context and agentic hype are heading next.