Everything You Need To Know About Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams, a new name for Office 365 Teams Microsoft Teams is cloud-based team collaboration software that is part of formerly Office 365 now Microsoft 365 suite of applications. The core capabilities in Microsoft 365 Teams include business messaging, calling, video meetings and file sharing. Businesses of all sizes can use Teams. Teams is Microsoft’s core cloud-based unified communications (UC) offering, and it competes with similar products, such as Slack, Cisco Webex and Google Workspace. As a business communications app,…
Microsoft Teams’ new ‘Together mode’ aims to make video calls more engaging
In an effort to make video calls more “inclusive, engaging and reflective,” Microsoft is rolling out a host of new Teams features – including a viewing mode that puts everyone in the same room. Microsoft Microsoft Teams on Wednesday unveiled a slew of new updates to its video conferencing software, including a “Together mode” that puts participants in a virtual meeting hall. That and other changes will be rolled out to users next month. The most significant update is the new…
15 power user tips for Microsoft Teams
Take collaboration to the next level with these Teams tips and tricks. Microsoft A latecomer to the group chat scene, Microsoft Teams has become a powerful corporate collaboration application. Because it’s included with most Office 365 business subscriptions, many companies already own it and are turning to it as they get up to speed with a fully remote workforce in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. Like other chat tools, Teams lets you set up multiple channels (discussion areas) for your team,…
Microsoft Teams cheat sheet
Microsoft’s answer to Slack, Teams provides group messaging, voice and video calls, and useful integrations with other Office 365 apps. Here’s how to get set up in Teams and find your way around. IDG / Microsoft Email is everywhere, and it has been around seemingly forever. But is it really the most effective way for groups of people to collaborate on work and advance business objectives? Several newish team messaging products, most notably Slack, wager that the answer is indeed…
Digital whiteboards: The next must-have tool for hybrid teams?
Companies are looking to online visual collaboration platforms to provide shared workspaces for employees both in and out of the office. The scope of workplace collaboration tools available to teams today stretches far beyond anything employees might have imagined two and a half years ago. When work-from-home orders swept the globe in early 2020, most organizations were focused on ensuring they had viable video and chat platforms in place. Now, as a significant proportion of employees have decided to work…
Microsoft Launches new collaborative Office doc — Loop
Built on the Fluid Framework, Microsoft’s Loop app comes in response to offerings by start-ups such as Coda and Notion and their “all-in-one” collaborative documents. While it’s unlikely to supplant traditional Office docs for now, Loop previews a ‘post-Office’ world. Microsoft this week unveiled a new productivity application, Loop, that combines elements of documents, spreadsheets, and presentation apps in a single collaborative space. “The technology is effectively Microsoft’s vision for the future of Office, breaking down the rigid barriers between different…
Microsoft stretches Team’s extensions with it’s latest update
The new Surface Laptop was the marquee arrival in today’s Microsoft announcement, but boy howdy, the company also dropped a whole bunch of new accessories. It’s a pretty broad range of new devices, including some small updates to existing products and entirely new entries. But there’s one clear through line across them all: Teams. Microsoft is, after all, a software company at heart. That’s always fueled the company’s hardware products. So it’s really not a major surprise that its productivity…
Why Crestron has a place in a Zoom and Teams world
When it comes to video conferencing, one key to success is interoperability. In a virtual world that seems increasingly dominated by Zoom and Microsoft Teams, Crestron could be a player. RichLegg / Getty Images Disclosure: Microsoft and Lenovo are clients of the author This week I got a briefing from Crestron about the company’s various video conferencing offerings for home and business. I was struck by the fact that it, like Lenovo and Plantronics, is focused almost entirely on two collaboration…
