Microsoft Teams

Microsoft has just published a roundup of new features added to its Teams collaboration service in November 2022. The list of recent updates includes scheduled messages, instant polls, new Teams devices, and management features. Here’s what you need to know: Scheduled messages First up, Microsoft introduced a new chat feature that allows desktop and mobile…

Microsoft Teams has recently introduced a new accessibility feature called “sign language view.” This release enables participants who are deaf or hard of hearing and their interpreters to prioritize each other during video calls and meetings. Up until now, Microsoft Teams’ organizers had to manually pin interpreters and enable live captions for each meeting. The…

Microsoft has launched a new Games for Work app that allows users to play casual games during Teams meetings. The company announced this morning that the new app is only available for Microsoft Teams enterprise and education customers. The Microsoft Casual Games team, a part of Xbox Game Studios, has built the new Games for…

Last month, Microsoft unveiled that it’s working on a new feature to let users delete chats permanently from their list in Teams. Now, Microsoft has announced that this update will begin rolling out to all Microsoft Teams desktop and mobile clients in December. “Users can now delete 1:1 chats, group chats, and meeting chats if…

Microsoft has announced that a new Teams Progressive Web App (PWA) is now available for Linux machines. The company says that the PWA brings support for desktop-like features and helps to bridge the gap between the Teams client available on Windows and Linux. In August, Microsoft announced its plans to retire the Teams desktop client…

Microsoft has announced a new Webinars experience for its Teams collaboration service. The updated Webinars experience is based on the customers’ feedback, and it will begin rolling out to all Microsoft Teams users in late November. Microsoft Teams introduced support for interactive webinars for up to 1,000 attendees back in May 2021. The feature provides…

Microsoft claims that it has optimized the Microsoft Teams desktop app to reduce latency in key scenarios, such as switching between chats, channels, and activity feed. The company detailed in a blog post that these under-the-hood improvements are a result of an upgraded Teams framework introduced this month. According to Microsoft, the performance upgrades are…

Microsoft launched today the Digital Contact Center Platform, a new flexible and collaborative contact center solution. The new service brings together Microsoft Teams, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Nuance conversational AI, and it provides intelligent tools to modernize the customer care experience. “With the Microsoft Digital Contact Center Platform, contact centers are equipped with modern…

Microsoft has shared a roundup of improvements made to its Teams collaboration service in October 2022. The major highlights of this release are suggested replies for group chats, pop-out support for shared content in meetings, new Teams-certified devices, and management features, so let’s dive into it. First up, Microsoft detailed new chat and collaboration features…

Microsoft Teams is getting a new app that will allow users to request payments during meetings. As of today, Google Meet and Zoom let users accept payments from clients via third-party integration, and this capability is now coming to Microsoft Teams in public preview in November. “The Payments app in the Microsoft Teams app store…