Actual title "Yammer is evolving to Microsoft Viva Engage with new experiences rolling out today"
I worked in a place where someone senior decided we needed Yammer. Mostly non tech workforce. The only use it got was HR sending out some newsletter that could easily go in an email.
Pretty pointless, but I'm not sure any of them quite beats the footgun that changing Lync to Skype for Business was - they managed to go from a short, snappy, uniquely-spelled name that clearly distinguished the product and ecosystem to one that kept the corporate systems administrators from being able to do their planning research and testing at work, because corporate web proxies shockingly blocked "skype.com", and confused the heck out of the poor users when Skype for Business did not work like or with regular Skype at all.
And after all that upheaval, and going through Skype for Business Online... they switched it all to Microsoft Teams - even less searchable!
To be fair, "Windows" and "Word" have been their bread and butter for 30 years more or less, so why keep a unique, recognizable product name when a less-memorable moniker is out there, just waiting to be concocted.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 33.1 ms ] threadI worked in a place where someone senior decided we needed Yammer. Mostly non tech workforce. The only use it got was HR sending out some newsletter that could easily go in an email.
And after all that upheaval, and going through Skype for Business Online... they switched it all to Microsoft Teams - even less searchable!
To be fair, "Windows" and "Word" have been their bread and butter for 30 years more or less, so why keep a unique, recognizable product name when a less-memorable moniker is out there, just waiting to be concocted.
Well, it was good for at least one thing. I'd never heard of Yammer before, but now I have.
But without knowing what the terms mean, "Yammer" doesn't put me off any -- but "Viva Engage" really does.
I still can't understand the change from "Parallel Data Warehouse" to "Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL Pools".
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