{"id":1095,"date":"2026-01-20T17:42:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/wptest\/2026\/01\/20\/microsoft-announces-the-expansion-of-microsoft-365\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:04:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:04:04","slug":"microsoft-announces-the-expansion-of-microsoft-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/2026\/01\/20\/microsoft-announces-the-expansion-of-microsoft-365\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Announces the Expansion of Microsoft 365"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced the expansion of Microsoft 365, including Microsoft 365 F1, which provides purpose-built capabilities that help foster first line culture and community, train and upskill employees, digitise business process, deliver real-time expertise, and minimize risk and cost.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Michal Golebiewski, chief marketing &amp; operations officer, Microsoft Malaysia said: \u201cThe rise of digital technologies, along with a new generation of millennials entering the workforce, has brought about a need to address changing workers\u2019 expectations, knowledge and skills, as well as the tools they use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd with more than half of the world\u2019s millennials residing in asia, the workplace will need to transform to adapt to the technology habits of these digital natives. In addition, due to deployment of advanced and emerging technologies, organisations need to relook at reskilling its workforce to develop creative and strategic skills for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that every worker \u2013 from the factory floor to the front desk, to the executive boardroom \u2013 can contribute to an organisation\u2019s collective endeavours. It is our view that involving firstline workers in digital transformation will drive unprecedented opportunity \u2013 for workers, the organisations that they work for, and the industries and society at large,\u201d added Michal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Microsoft, we see the opportunities that can be unlocked with technology by equipping frontline workers with the right tools, such as Microsoft 365. Ultimately, digital transformation projects can only succeed if the right tools are in place for workers to leverage and maximise upon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New intelligent search capabilities, a vision for intelligent communications centring on Microsoft teams, and security and it management enhancements to help customers stay secure and compliant were also introduced at ignite:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Microsoft 365 F1brings together office 365, windows 10, and enterprise mobility + security to empower the more than two billion firstline workers worldwide, who serve as the first point of contact between a company and its customers, or who are directly involved in making products.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Introducing a new vision for intelligent communications, including plans to bring skype for business online capabilities into Microsoft teams, along with cognitive and data services, making teams the true hub for teamwork in office 365, including persistent chat, voice and video.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Intelligent search experiences use ai and machine learning to deliver more relevant search results everywhere you search across Microsoft 365<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Microsoft 365 is delivering improved advanced threat protection (atp) features like enhanced anti-phishing capabilities, expanded protection to sharepoint online, onedrive for business, and Microsoft teams and integration between cloud and on premises identity threat detection capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>For organisations still on office 2007, end of support will happen on 11 October. Customers who are still using office 2007 products and services are encouraged to move to office 365 or Microsoft 365 to stay supported, and ensure uninterrupted support from Microsoft.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Michal concluded: \u201cWith cloud-based productivity tools being a key pick among asia\u2019s mobile workers to drive greater collaboration among teams, we urge organisations to take the opportunity to evaluate Microsoft 365 as an option to modernise their workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced the expansion of Microsoft 365, including Microsoft 365 F1, which provides purpose-built capabilities that help foster first line culture and community, train and upskill employees, digitise business process, deliver real-time expertise, and minimize risk and cost.\u00a0 Michal Golebiewski, chief marketing &amp; operations officer, Microsoft Malaysia said: \u201cThe rise of digital technologies, along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5219,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions\/5219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}