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Yammer - Planner - Tasks - People overlapping functionality and no connection
Yammer - Planner - Tasks- People are all individually nice apps in Office 365, but the problem is that People and Yammer as well as Planner and Tasks have overlapping functionality. Furthermore, if...
The connections especially for Yammer as noted are indeed getting stronger. But, you do point out that generally the approach has been to develop a "new thing" to replace the "old thing" rather than to evolve the old thing (another example you didn't site: Stream).
We can debate the merits of either approach. And while MS does do a good job communicating things it's certainly a complicated service to follow given all the changes.