Microsoft plans to sunset its Microsoft Office branding after more than 30 years, rebranding the apps to Microsoft 365; new logos will roll out in January 2023 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Jeremy Nation / The Block:
Esports company TSM ends its 10-year, $210M partnership with FTX “effective immediately” and removes all branding, the latest company to drop FTX after its fall  —  As part of the continuing fallout from the collapse of FTX, major esports company TSM opted to terminate its contract with the crypto exchange.

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
Twilio will sunset Zipwhip’s business texting service on December 1, 2023, after acquiring the Seattle startup last year for $850M in cash and stock  —  Twilio will sunset Zipwhip’s software after acquiring the Seattle startup for $850 million last year.  —  According to the latest update …

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Meta partners with Microsoft to bring Teams, Office, Windows 365, and Xbox Cloud Gaming to Quest VR headsets  —  Microsoft and Meta looked like they were on a collision course last year, poised to compete heavily for the future of work in the metaverse.  But today, both companies announced …

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft previews Places, a new app to help companies address hybrid workplace challenges, to be released in 2023 with Microsoft 365 business subscriptions  —  Microsoft previewed a new app that will attempt to help companies, workers, and real estate facilities managers address …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is ramping up work on a mixed-reality headset to be introduced as early as next year and has renamed the headset’s OS from realityOS to xrOS  —  Apple Inc. is ramping up work on a mixed-reality headset, its first major new product category since the Apple Watch …

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft begins to roll out iCloud Photos integration into Windows 11, in an update to the built-in Windows Photos app  —  Microsoft is starting to roll out iCloud Photos integration into Windows 11.  A new update to the Photos app in Windows 11 is now available, which will include the ability …