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.
Microsoft Teams first launched in March of 2017 and has picked up many new features since then. Keep it tuned to OnMSFT.com for all the latest guides, how-tos, and news on Microsoft Teams.
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The new Shared chat feature in Teams that Microsoft announced at its Ignite conference last month is now available for desktop, web, and mobile users. The new feature brings Teams for work and Teams for consumers chat interoperability, and it ... Read more
Microsoft has introduced today Microsoft Teams Essentials, a new standalone Teams offering designed for small businesses and organizations including retailers, restaurants, nonprofits, and more. Teams Essentials require no IT expertise, and it includes more features than the free version of ... Read more
As is the case every month, Microsoft has published a roundup of all the new features added to its Teams collaboration platform in November. First of all, the company has just launched new Loop components in Teams chats to help ... Read more
Microsoft is planning to add multi-camera support to Teams Rooms devices, the dedicated meeting solutions for professional conference rooms and home offices. This feature will only be available for select Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows, such as the Surface Hub. ... Read more
Microsoft is planning to change how the native device permissions for third-party apps are handled in Teams. The Microsoft Teams desktop and mobile apps already let users manually grant access permissions to each third-party app, and this experience is now ... Read more
Microsoft is launching a new service plan for business customers called “Teams Phone with Calling Plan.” The company is consolidating its Microsoft 365 Business Voice and Enterprise bundles to simplify the purchasing process and bring "enterprise-grade capabilities" to small and ... Read more
Microsoft is getting ready to release new Fluent-designed emojis for Teams, with the desktop and mobile apps getting the same Fluent emoji-style that is already available in Flipgrid as well as for Windows 11 Insiders. Microsoft says that it’s updating ... Read more
The Microsoft Teams Store is going to look a bit different soon. Soon to be designed to help you stay in the flow of work, Microsoft hopes the new look should make it easier to see more relevant apps and ... Read more
Microsoft is planning to change how the Activity Feed in Microsoft Teams works, giving users more granular options on what type of notifications they want to see. The Activity Feed in Teams currently mixes together @mentions, message replies, emoji reactions, ... Read more
Microsoft Teams is getting a new update that will enable users to flip their video feeds in a call or meeting. This new “Mirror my video” feature should make it easier for presenters to read the text written on a ... Read more
Microsoft has just released the Windows 11 preview build 22499 for Insiders in the Dev channel, and the main new feature is the ability to quickly share open app windows to a Microsoft Teams call. When hovering over open windows ... Read more
Microsoft and Meta are tripping over themselves to out meta one another with announcements about their respective visions for an online powered metaverse. However, the two are actually helping one another reached their meta goals by working together to integrate ... Read more
Microsoft Teams is getting support for human-generated live captions in meetings, which are now an alternative to the existing free AI-based live captions available in the app. Meeting organizers can now set up CART captioning during a meeting and invite ... Read more
Microsoft Viva, the company's new employee experience platform that's available within Microsoft Teams is now expanding its reach on mobile devices. Viva Connections, one of the four Viva modules that the company announced earlier this year has now made the ... Read more
The Microsoft Teams desktop app is making multitasking a bit better for users who juggle between several private conversations every day. If it was already possible to pop out Microsoft Teams chats in a separate window, the desktop has added ... Read more
Microsoft Teams is adding a new option to disable all in-app notifications during meetings. This new feature should help meeting participants pay attention to the speaker rather than being distracted by private messages and mentions. Once the feature rolls out, ... Read more
Microsoft has just released the Windows 11 preview build 22494 for Insiders in the Dev channel, which introduces the ability to mute or unmute your microphone from the Taskbar during Microsoft Teams calls. A new microphone icon will appear in ... Read more
The Microsoft Teams desktop app will let users sign in with multiple work accounts next year. This has been a top-requested feature from users, but Microsoft explained yesterday it requires a lot of work and it won't be ready until ... Read more
Thanks in large part to Facebook taking the preverbal industry leap to invoke the phrase metaverse for its vision of a connected social online construct, other companies are now free to offer their own conceptualizations and Microsoft's metaverse contains a ... Read more
When you think of Microsoft Teams, you probably think of something that you use at school or work. Even with the new "Teams for Consumers" chat app in Windows 11, though, Teams isn't quite as mainstream in the personal space ... Read more
Microsoft is kicking off its Inspire November 2021 conference this morning, and the Redmond giant has announced some exciting updates for Microsoft Teams. The popular collaboration service is getting a slew of new features and capabilities focused on improving chat, ... Read more