<p>Microsoft on Tuesday described progress and future plans for its Yammer social networking application, which has reached a one-year milestone.</p><p>It's been one year since Microsoft announced the acquisition of Yammer, which is part of the Microsoft Office Division as of July. Microsoft plans to integrate Yammer across a number of its products, including SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, Outlook, Exchange, Skype and Lync. The social networking capabilities of Yammer are now sold with Office 365 subscriptions and come at no additional cost with Enterprise Agreement licensing.</p><p>While the Yammer team is based in San Francisco, it now has a branch up north, closer to Microsoft, according to David Sacks, Microsoft's corporate vice president for Yammer. "There has been tremendous synergy between the Yammer and Office 365 development teams, so much so that there is an established Yammer North team in Redmond," he explained in a blog post.</p><p>One of the new Office 365 interoperability improvements includes the addition of a Yammer newsfeed for SharePoint Online that can be used to replace the SharePoint newsfeed. Microsoft lately has stressed that organizations should favor Yammer for their social networking needs in SharePoint, if it's possible to use the Yammer online service. Yammer is a hosted multitenant solution only, so some organization may not want to use it. For instance, those organizations that want to keep their social networking traffic on premises can instead elect to use SharePoint server.</p><p><a href="http://redmondmag.com/articles/2013/06/25/microsoft-cites-yammer-progress.aspx">Keep reading...</a></p>