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Microsoft Teams gets a streamlined look with combined personal and work accounts; Know what’s new

14Mar

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Microsoft Teams gets a streamlined look with combined personal and work accounts; Know what’s new

[ad_1] In a significant move, Microsoft is streamlining its approach to communication and collaboration with a unified version of Microsoft Teams, accommodating both personal and work accounts seamlessly. This development aims to simplify user experience and enhance productivity by eliminating the need for separate applications. This unified app, currently undergoing testing, promises to revolutionise the way users interact across different account types.Currently undergoing testing within the latest Windows 11 Insider build, the unified Teams app is slated to enter preview mode for commercial users in April, with an official launch scheduled alongside Windows 11 24H2 later this year. Also read: Google Pixel Fold 2 tipped to get bigger displays than its predecessor; Know what's coming L...

Microsoft Teams outage hits thousands of users, reveals Downdetector

26Jan

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Microsoft Teams outage hits thousands of users, reveals Downdetector

[ad_1] Microsoft Teams outage: Microsoft's Teams app services were down for thousands of users on Friday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. There were more than 13,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the messaging platform, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform."We've completed the failover in the EMEA region and service telemetry is showing some improvement. The failovers for the North and South America regions are ongoing and we continue to monitor," Microsoft said in a post on social media platform X. (UPDATE) Microsoft Teams services were restored on Saturday after a disruption blocked access to the messaging platform. "After extended monitori...

Upgraded Microsoft Teams app now available for Windows and Mac

6Oct

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Upgraded Microsoft Teams app now available for Windows and Mac

[ad_1] Recently Microsoft made available a preview release of the Microsoft Teams app a few months after revealing its efforts to revamp the app's functionality and do it virtually from scratch. This was done with the objective of increasing user productivity and team collaboration. Now, the new Microsoft Teams app has finally been rolled out to the Windows and Mac devices. The company claims that the new app is faster and smarter. Know more about the new Teams app here.Microsoft Teams app's new version for Windows and MacAccording to the Microsoft blog, with the preview of the new Teams, the app performance was up to twice as fast, and it consumed only half the memory. The new Teams app has various new features such as custom line-of-business apps, third-party apps, breakout rooms, 7x7...

Zoom Adds Features Like Document Editing in Bid to Compete With Microsoft

4Oct

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Zoom Adds Features Like Document Editing in Bid to Compete With Microsoft

[ad_1] Zoom Video Communications Inc. is adding word processing to its suite of tools and experimenting with novel features for meetings as it faces steep competition from Microsoft Corp.'s Teams.Collaborative document editing, similar to Alphabet Inc.'s Google Docs, will be made available in Zoom next year, the company announced Tuesday ahead of its annual conference. What sets the tool apart is the ability to include information and artificial intelligence-generated summaries from Zoom meetings, Chief Product Officer Smita Hashim said in an interview. The company's fiscal-year revenue jumped more than fivefold to $4.1 billion from 2020 to 2022 as Zoom became an essential tool during the pandemic. But that explosive growth ended as offices reopened and competition intensified. Analysts...

Microsoft AI researchers accidentally leaked 38TB data online; Includes passwords, secret keys, more

19Sep

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Microsoft AI researchers accidentally leaked 38TB data online; Includes passwords, secret keys, more

[ad_1] Cybersecurity is a big concern in 2023 for both individuals and enterprises, and it seems even big technology companies aren't safe from the prying eyes of hackers and cybercriminals. In a shocking development, almost 38TB of data was leaked online, albeit accidentally. While companies these days have several data protection policies and safeguards against data leaks from external threat actors in place, this data leak allegedly involved Microsoft employees. Here's what happened.In a blog post, Microsoft announced that researchers at cloud security firm Wiz discovered that Microsoft's AI division researchers accidentally leaked 38TB of data while contributing to a GitHub repository involving the development of open-source AI models. Microsoft has emphasized that no customer data ...

Microsoft Facing Formal EU Complaint Over Teams Video App

19Sep

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Microsoft Facing Formal EU Complaint Over Teams Video App

[ad_1] Microsoft Corp.'s attempt at avoiding deeper European Union scrutiny of its Teams video-conferencing app fell flat with the bloc's antitrust enforcers readying a formal complaint against the firm's conduct.Microsoft's recent proposal to split its Teams from a broader business software package and sell it to customers separately with an annual discount wasn't enough to satisfy regulators' concerns, according to people familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The European Commission is preparing a statement of objections to send to the company, which could come in the next few months, the people said. At the end of August, Microsoft attempted to allay concerns raised by the EU's antitrust arm as part of a new investigation into how it ties Teams to its Office ...

Microsoft to unbundle Teams from Office, seeks to avert EU antitrust fine

1Sep

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Microsoft to unbundle Teams from Office, seeks to avert EU antitrust fine

[ad_1] Microsoft said on Thursday it would unbundle its chat and video app Teams from its Office product and make it easier for competing products to work with its software, but rivals said it may need to do more to stave off a possible EU antitrust fine.The proposed changes came a month after the European Commission launched an investigation into Microsoft's tying of Office and Teams, following a complaint by Salesforce-owned competing workspace messaging app Slack in 2020. Microsoft's moves announced on Thursday were similar to preliminary concessions that had failed to address regulatory concerns. The EU competition enforcer said it took note of the company's announcement and declined further comment. The Commission could hit the company with formal charges in the autumn unless it be...

Google Chat gets messaging interoperability with Slack and Teams

31Aug

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Google Chat gets messaging interoperability with Slack and Teams

[ad_1] Google has been adding new features to its Workspace apps. After rolling out Duet AI capabilities to all the different apps such as Gmail, Docs, Slides, and Drive, and the new home screen redesign for Google Chat, the company's native chat messenger is getting another important feature upgrade. Powered by Mio, a cross-platform collaboration tool, Google Chat will now offer messaging interoperability to other messaging platforms such as Slack and Microsoft Teams.The new feature was announced by Google recently in a blog post that said, “If your organization uses a mixture of messaging tools, you can now use Mio to enable messaging interoperability between Google Chat and other platforms such as Slack and Teams”. This feature is currently in beta testing. The feature is expected to...

Microsoft Teams brings new spatial audio feature for immersive meetings on desktops

2Aug

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Microsoft Teams brings new spatial audio feature for immersive meetings on desktops

[ad_1] Earlier in April, Microsoft announced that it was testing its new feature called spatial audio for the desktop teams version. Now, Microsoft has availed this feature for all desktop users on Windows and macOS. The idea of this feature was to bring immersive sounds during virtual meetings. During the call, each caller receives a unique position on the screen that corresponds to their location with the spatial audio feature that ensures the voices sound spread out during a call. That means you will hear the sounds like how you would in real life.As per Microsoft, this feature will enable users to have natural conversations with enhanced audio presence. Now, with the feature being available to everyone, users can take advantage of improved audio meetings. About spatial feature and i...

EU investigates Microsoft over concerns bundling Teams with Office eliminates competition

28Jul

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EU investigates Microsoft over concerns bundling Teams with Office eliminates competition

[ad_1] The European Union said Thursday that it has opened an antitrust investigation into Microsoft over concerns that bundling its Teams messaging and videoconferencing app with its Office productivity software gives it an unfair edge over competitors.The European Commission, the 27-nation bloc's top competition enforcer, said it would carry out its in-depth investigation “as a matter of priority.” The investigation stems from a complaint filed in 2020 by Slack Technologies, which makes popular workplace messaging software. Slack, owned by business software maker Salesforce, alleged that Microsoft was abusing its market dominance to eliminate competition — in violation of EU laws — by illegally combining Teams with its Office suite, which includes Word, Excel and Outlook.“Remote commu...