Why Microsoft Teams is better than Zoom!

Why Microsoft Teams is better than Zoom!

Since the first lockdown back in March, collaboration and conferencing tools have become hugely important in the way businesses communicate both internally and externally. As most people will be aware of the basic features, I thought I would provide a simple overview of what is new and what is to come in the near future with Microsoft Teams.

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Pinned Posts: Keep important information easily accessible and top of mind with Microsoft Teams. Users will be able to pin any message in a channel to the channel information pane for all members of the channel to see.

Virtual Breakout Rooms: Meeting hosts can create breakout rooms to be used by meeting participants for smaller group discussion. They can assign participants to a room and call them back to the larger group when the breakout is complete.

Together Mode: Together mode uses of AI segmentation technology in meetings to digitally place participants in a shared background, making it feel like you’re sitting in the same room with everyone else.

Speaker Attribution (Live Captions): With live captions enabled, you’ll be able to see who is talking with text attributed to the attendee.

Our favourite, removal of Background Noise: You can eat crisps, drink coffee or even attend a meeting in a busy environment with all meeting participants not hearing background noise, just your voice.

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Tagging by shifts: Tagging by shift connects you to the right people faster. This new feature automatically assigns users with tags matching their schedule and shift group name from the Shifts app in Teams.

Walkie Talkie (Android): Walkie Talkie is a push-to-talk experience that enables clear, instant and secure voice communication over the cloud, turning employee- or company-owned Android smartphones and tablets into a walkie-talkie.  This native built-in app in Teams reduces the number of devices employees must carry and helps lower costs for IT.

Teams Templates: When creating a new team, users can now choose from a variety of customizable templates including event management, crisis response, as well as industry-specific templates like hospital ward and bank branch. Microsoft will publish a set of first-party templates and customers can also create new templates for their own organization.

Suggested replies (Android): Suggested replies in Teams chat uses assistive AI to create short responses based on the context of the previous message.

Custom Meeting Images: Admins will now be able to add a custom logo to the Teams experience, for display in the lobby and meeting pre-join experience.

For more information you can see all roadmap items for Microsoft 365 here: Microsoft 365 Roadmap

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