Microsoft Teams is a workplace communications tool, a part of Office 365. It is best known as Microsoft's take on Slack, the popular cloud-based proprietary instant messaging platform.
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Microsoft introduced Breakout Rooms in Teams meetings back in December 2020, allowing organizers to split meetings into different groups. The company has released some updates to improve the Breakout Rooms experience in Teams, and these enhancements are rolling out to ... Read more
Microsoft has announced that the Viva Connections mobile experience is available in Microsoft Teams starting today. The Viva Connections mobile app was unveiled earlier this month, and it gives employees access to relevant news, conversations, and other resources from SharePoint ... Read more
Microsoft is finally adding support for joining meetings in another cloud anonymously in Teams on the desktop. The Microsoft 365 listing hints at a possible release in mid-October, with the feature currently being categorized as being under development. Unlike the ... Read more
Back in June, Microsoft unveiled some important updates coming to Teams, including the ability to reply to specific chat messages. Today, the company has announced that the quoted reply feature is now available in public preview on the Microsoft Teams ... Read more
Microsoft Teams has released some important updates for its AI-powered Live captions and transcription capabilities in meetings. Indeed, the Microsoft 365 roadmap suggests that both these features now support meetings in 27 new languages. Previously, the Live captions and transcription ... Read more
Microsoft Teams search function is about to get some major updates this month. The company on September 16 will be rolling out two new features to public preview users that should help to improve the search experience in Teams. First ... Read more
Microsoft is planning to launch a new polling experience in Teams meetings and chats. According to an email sent out to Office 365 subscribers, a new “Polls” app is scheduled to roll out to all users by the end of ... Read more
Microsoft is working on a new accessibility feature that should make it easier for users to unmute during Teams meetings. The company has recently updated its Microsoft 365 roadmap to indicate that push-to-talk support is coming to desktop users in ... Read more
Microsoft today held its “new era of hybrid work” digital event and announced a bunch of features for Teams, Outlook, and Viva that are aimed at making hybrid work easier. The company has also announced some new Teams Rooms innovations ... Read more
Microsoft Teams for Education has announced a new feature to help students share their emotions with educators. As research studies have hinted that the ongoing pandemic has negatively impacted students’ social-emotional skills, Microsoft is adding a new illustrated character within ... Read more
Google has announced some important updates regarding Google Workspace, the company’s collection of productivity tools for enterprise users. The software giant has revealed that it’s rebranding “Rooms” in Chat to “spaces,” and this update is now generally available for all ... Read more
Microsoft Teams is about to add a new feature that will enable chat supervisors to delete messages. The Microsoft 365 roadmap indicates that this feature is currently “In development,” and it will begin its global rollout to both desktop and ... Read more
Early investigations into last night's OS debilitating Taskbar bug for Insiders may have been the results of poorly constructed cloud sync for a Teams related advertisement within the operating system. More specifically, Ctrl blog contributor Daniel Aleksandersen notes (via Windows ... Read more
Microsoft has just announced a second “hybrid work” digital event that the firm is holding on Thursday, September 9, at 8 AM PT. There isn't much in the way of information, but the company says this virtual event will focus ... Read more
Microsoft Teams is launching a new “word cloud” feature that will help to improve the built-in Polls feature in meetings. This feature is slated to begin rolling out to both desktop and mobile users in late September. The Microsoft Teams ... Read more
Microsoft today detailed its monthly roundup for what's new in Teams. This month, the firm is highlighting updates such as new Breakout Rooms capabilities, presenter modes, calling features, devices, and much more. Here’s a look at everything you need to ... Read more
Microsoft Teams has received a new update that brings support for organization-wide backgrounds for meetings. The feature was originally announced back in April, and it’s now available in preview for Microsoft 365 commercial subscribers. Previously, Microsoft Teams didn’t allow IT ... Read more
Back in May, Microsoft unveiled a free Reading Progress feature for Teams for Education to help students improve their reading skills. The company today announced that this feature has now started rolling out to all education customers, and it should ... Read more
Microsoft is preparing to drop support for its Teams mobile app on older versions of iOS in October of this year. The Redmond giant has announced via Microsoft 365 Admin Center that the list of supported versions includes iOS 13 ... Read more
Microsoft Teams has released a new Call Health Panel that provides real-time telemetry for meetings or VOIP calls. The feature started rolling out back in June, and it is now available for all desktop users worldwide. This Call Health Panel ... Read more
Microsoft Teams is introducing a new feature that will let meeting organizers assign specific presenters to Breakout rooms. The feature is currently under development, and it’s expected to roll out to Teams users globally in mid-September. With this release, the ... Read more