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Microsoft Teams

15 Jun 2018

Microsoft Teams is Microsoft's collaboration platform. It includes features for chat, meetings, note-taking, calling and file sharing. It's available on multiple OSes, including Windows 10, macOS, iOS and Android. Teams is part of Office 365, and it's available with an Office 365 subscription. And it's designed for use in corporate environments, thanks to is security focus and integration with other popular enterprise apps.

Microsoft first announced teams on November 2, 2016, and the company rolled the service out globally on March 14, 2017.

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Social teamwork

Microsoft Teams gains a slew of new features in September update

Sean Endicott 2 weeks ago 2

Microsoft Teams has several new features as part of the September update, including improved chatting, calling, and meeting features.

Account Management

Microsoft Teams for iOS update brings account switching and more

Sean Endicott 4 weeks ago

Microsoft Teams now supports account switching, quote replying to specific messages in a chat, and more thanks to its latest update.

seeing through you

Microsoft Teams can now make you translucent to show off whiteboards

Sean Endicott 1 month ago

Microsoft Teams now supports content cameras that can make you translucent inside a Microsoft Teams Room system. The feature makes it so collaborators can always see the whiteboard in a meeting.

Year of Linux?

It's official: Microsoft Teams is coming to Linux

Sean Endicott 1 month ago 2

A recent update to a UserVoice page confirms that Microsoft is "actively working on" Microsoft Teams for Linux.

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Microsoft Teams could be on its way to Linux

Sean Endicott 2 months ago 3

Microsoft Teams is already available on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android, and it might make its way to Linux soon.

Back to school

Microsoft Teams gets updates for assignment experience

Sean Endicott 2 months ago

Microsoft Teams has several new features that enhance and improve the assignments experience from start to finish.

Teamwork

Microsoft is retiring Skype for Business Online

Sean Endicott 2 months ago 7

Skype for Business Online will be retired in two years. Microsoft is pushing users towards Microsoft Teams leading up to the retirement.

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Microsoft Teams for Android gains emoji reactions and more in latest update

Sean Endicott 2 months ago

Microsoft Teams users on Android can now react with emojis. The app also gained several new features in its recent update.

Slack attack

Slack's CEO doesn't see Microsoft Teams as a threat

Sean Endicott 3 months ago 10

Despite Microsoft Teams surpassing Slack in terms of daily active users, the CEO of Slack doesn't see it as a threat.

Week in Microsoft

This week in Microsoft news: Teams overtakes Slack, PC shipments up, more

Dan Thorp-Lancaster 3 months ago 4

A lot happens in Microsoft news each week, so check out this handy roundup for some of the top stories. This week: Teams potentially overtakes Slack, the Minecraft Earth closed beta starts in two weeks, and PC shipments saw an uptick in Q2 2019.

Teamwork makes dreams work

Microsoft Teams hits 13 million daily active users

Sean Endicott 3 months ago 1

Microsoft Teams hit 13 million active daily users. Microsoft's collaborative service now has potentially more daily active users than its rival Slack.

Flying solo

Microsoft Teams users 'unable to perform various actions' right now

Sean Endicott 3 months ago 8

Microsoft Teams users can't do a variety of actions on the service right now. Microsoft is currently investigating the issue.

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Microsoft Teams now supports more emoji reactions

Sean Endicott 4 months ago 3

Microsoft Teams now lets you express more emotions in reactions to messages. You can now use six emoji reactions on mobile and desktop.

Modern schooling

Teams for Education gets sharing updates ahead of back-to-school season

Sean Endicott 4 months ago

Teams for Education has a group of updates aimed at getting students and teachers ready for going back to school.

Stay Connected

Microsoft reportedly working on version of Teams for friends and family

Dan Thorp-Lancaster 4 months ago 18

Microsoft Teams has seen quite a bit of success in the enterprise and education sectors, but now Microsoft may be setting its sights on your home life as well. At an internal meeting, the company reportedly showed off a new version of Teams designed for friends and family, complete with shared documents and calendars.

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