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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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UH OH

Several Microsoft 365 services can't be accessed due to an outage

Sean Endicott 6 hours ago 1

Several Microsoft 365 services are down at the moment, including Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, and more. The issue seems to be isolated to the Eastern United States.

Duking it out

Will Teams or Slack ultimately win the messaging app wars?

Dan Thorp-Lancaster 1 day ago 13

Microsoft Teams recently hit 20 million daily active users, far outpacing rival messaging app Slack. But the questions are whether it can sustain that growth and what the surge means for Slack.

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Microsoft Teams launches on Linux in public preview

Sean Endicott 2 days ago 1

People can now try out Microsoft Teams in preview on Linux. Microsoft Teams is the first Office app to come to Linux desktops, and allows people on Linux to chat, video call, and collaborate on Office 365 documents.

Teamwork

Microsoft Teams hits 20 million daily active users

Sean Endicott 3 weeks ago

Microsoft Teams now has 20 million daily active users, over a 50 percent increase of its daily active user count from four months ago.

On Fire

Catch up on the biggest news from Microsoft Ignite 2019 right here

Dan Thorp-Lancaster 1 month ago 1

Microsoft's Ignite 2019 opening keynote was full of some pretty big announcements. In case you missed it, here's a rundown of our picks for the top five.

Working together

Microsoft Whiteboard comes to the web and Microsoft Teams

Sean Endicott 1 month ago 2

Microsoft Whiteboard is now on the web and available for real-time collaboration within Microsoft Teams.

Team up

Microsoft Teams is getting closer To Do and Planner integration

Dan Thorp-Lancaster 1 month ago

Microsoft announced a raft of new features for its work collaboration app, Teams, at Ignite 2019. Those include closer integration with other Microsoft services, pinned channels, and much more.

share away

Microsoft Teams gains new file and sharing experiences

Sean Endicott 1 month ago

Microsoft 365 now integrates better with OneDrive and has a new file and sharing experience.

Social teamwork

Microsoft Teams gains a slew of new features in September update

Sean Endicott 2 months 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 2 months 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 3 months 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.