Microsoft Teams — which brings together chat, meetings, calling, and Office 365 document sharing — is marking its third anniversary by sharing new communication and collaboration features.
The new capabilities, according to Microsoft, reflect its commitment to two things: building the very best online meeting experience for their customers; and bringing technological solutions to traditionally underserved professionals, including Firstline and healthcare workers.
Here’s a closer look at the newest Teams features:
- Real-time noise suppression, which will minimize distracting background noise (e.g., keyboard typing, vacuum cleaner), allowing you to hear what’s being said.
- The raise hand feature, which will let anyone in a virtual meeting send a visual signal that they have something to say.
- Offline and low-bandwidth support, which will let you read chat messages and write responses—even without an internet connection—making it easier for you to move things forward no matter where you are.
Teams during COVID-19
Microsoft believes that this sudden, globe-spanning move to remote work will be a turning point in how people work and learn. Already, the company is seeing how solutions that enable remote work and learning across chat, video, and file collaboration have become central to the way people work.
Microsoft says it has seen an unprecedented spike in Teams usage, and now has more than 44 million daily users, a figure that has grown by 12 million in just the last seven days. And those users have generated over 900 million meeting and calling minutes on Teams each day this week.
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