Excel, Word and PowerPoint: Contact cards accessible from Office Web when collaborating in real-time.

When working with others in an Office file at the same time you can now access people’s contact card directly from within the Office Web Application. This is helpful if you want to email or chat with them or learn about their organization.

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Microsoft Edge v.94: New Extended stable option being offered.

Beginning with Microsoft Edge version 94, we are offering a new Extended Stable option to our managed Enterprise customers. The Extended Stable option will stay on even numbered revisions and update every 8 weeks. There will be a biweekly security update.

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Microsoft Cloud App Security: Cloud Access Security Broker for GCC

The
Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS) offering for GCC is built on the Microsoft
Azure Government Cloud and is designed to inter-operate with the Microsoft 365
GCC environment. Microsoft Cloud App Security is a Cloud Access Security Broker
(CASB) that secures SaaS and multi-cloud solutions. It provides rich
visibility, control over data travel, and sophisticated analytics to identify
and combat cyberthreats across all your cloud services.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/enterprise-mobility-security/solutions/ems-cloud-app-security-govt-service-description

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Microsoft Edge v.91: Now you can view Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (MDATP) threat signals from Application Guard (AppGuard) containers

Application Guard is now integrated with Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (MDATP), which allows IT admins track threat activity detected by MDATP inside the container.

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Microsoft Teams: Support of Live Caption for Teams on VDI for VMware

Teams
users on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) will be able to use live
captions. Live captions display the text version of the audio during the call.

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Microsoft Teams: Support of Live Caption for Teams on VDI for Azure Virtual Desktop

Teams
users on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) will be able to use live
captions. Live captions display the text version of the audio during the call.

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Outlook for iOS: Reactions

Thumbs up, laugh, heart, celebrate or shed a tear in reaction to emails in Outlook.  Apply your sentiment and see the reaction of others in emails in Outlook without sending or receiving incremental emails.    

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Outlook for Android: Reactions

Thumbs up, laugh, heart, celebrate or shed a tear in reaction to emails in Outlook.  Apply your sentiment and see the reaction of others in emails in Outlook without sending or receiving incremental emails.

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Microsoft Teams and Forms: Word Cloud for Polls in Teams

When users have collected responses for an open text poll in a Teams meeting, word cloud data insight will be available to help them get a quick view on the top text phrases people answered.

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Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie on Teams phones

Like traditional walkie talkies, the Walkie Talkie app on your Teams phones provides an instant push-to-talk (PTT) communication for your team. It allows you to press and hold a button to speak to your team, and release the button to listen. Users can connect with their team using the Teams channels.

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I've been working with Microsoft Technologies over the last ten years, mainly focused on creating collaboration and productivity solutions that drive the adoption of Microsoft Modern Workplace.