Microsoft Teams

Microsoft has partnered with Stripe, PayPal, and GoDaddy to launch a new Payments app for Microsoft Teams. The app allows small businesses in the US and Canada to accept payments for webinars, one-on-one sessions, classes, appointments, and events within Teams meetings. “We have partnered with leading players in the payments space to combine the core…

Microsoft has decided to unbundle Microsoft Teams with its Office software. According to a report from the Financial Times, this move could potentially help to avoid an formal antitrust investigation by EU regulators. Slack lodged an anticompetition complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission (EC) back in July 2020. The company argued that Microsoft “illegally”…

Microsoft Teams has introduced support for user-managed call queue and auto-attendant greetings. The long-awaited calling feature lets IT admins designate authorized users to manage greetings and announcements for their respective call queues and auto attendant directly within Microsoft Teams. In Microsoft Teams, the call queues feature is a waiting area that allows incoming calls to…

Here is the simple way to set an out of office message using Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft Teams has added a new feature that should make it easier for users to spice up their virtual meetings. Indeed, Microsoft has partnered with Snap to bring new Snapchat Lenses to Microsoft Teams meetings. With this release, Microsoft Teams users can now access a collection of 26 popular Snapchat Lenses during meetings. Participants can…

Microsoft has released a new My Day view in the Tasks by Planner and To Do app for Microsoft Teams. The feature enables users to consolidate their task lists to effectively organize and prioritize important workflows. “’My Day’ view brings together tasks from various sources such as Microsoft To Do, Microsoft Planner (tasks assigned to…

Last month, Microsoft unveiled that it’s adding green screen background support to improve Teams meetings. The company announced this morning that the new feature is now available in the Microsoft Teams desktop app for Windows and macOS. “Microsoft Teams now supports a green screen feature which provides an enhanced virtual background effect. Green screen improves…

Microsoft has announced a new Collaboration Security feature for Microsoft Teams. The new set of capabilities provides preventive, detective, and protective features that ensure end-to-end security for select Microsoft Teams customers. “With 71% of companies admitting that sensitive and business-critical data is regularly shared via collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams, organizations are increasingly realizing the…

As Microsoft is kicking off its Enterprise Connect conference this morning, the company announced a new Teams desktop client that brings big performance improvements for Windows users. Microsoft has also unveiled several new features and capabilities coming to Microsoft Teams this month. The new version of Microsoft Teams has been built from the ground up,…

It’s been a long time coming for long-suffering Microsoft Teams users. Today, Microsoft is launching access to a public preview of its new client software for Teams on Windows. The new client, which is officially version 2.1, will bring x2 faster performance while using 50% less memory. The current Teams client is Electron based, a…