On the second anniversary of its release, Microsoft has announced some new milestones for Teams, its chat-based collaboration solution.
“Over the past two years, Teams has grown significantly in both new capabilities and customer usage, as the hub for teamwork that brings people together and fosters a culture of engagement and inclusion,” Microsoft 365 general manager Lori Wright notes. “We’re unveiling eight new capabilities in Teams that make collaboration more inclusive, effective, and secure.”
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But first, the milestones: Teams is now in use by over 500,000 organizations, including 91 of the Fortune 100. The product is currently available in 44 languages across 181 markets, and Microsoft plans to roll it out support for nine additional languages—Hindi, Filipino, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, and Malayalam—soon.
Following up on the mobile Teams experiences that Microsoft unveiled in January, the firm today is highlighting 8 new features that are coming soon:
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dontbe evil
<blockquote><em><a href="#413715">In reply to ghostrider:</a></em></blockquote><p>probably they didn't understand how to use and organize it …. If you do it properly is much better than Slack</p>
dontbe evil
<blockquote><em><a href="#413723">In reply to erannaud:</a></em></blockquote><p>Teams Is intutivie if used properly … if you need only 1to1 chat of course you're going to prefer skype</p>
dontbe evil
<p>Damn how much I miss Teams, I switched company 5 months ago and I really don't find slack as good as Teams</p>