Microsoft announced its three-year anniversary with a number of new features, a larger active user base, and a brief discussion about the current COVID-19 crisis.
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Context: More and more people are working from home (Microsoft's 50,000-strong workforce in Puget Sound and tens of thousands of employees worldwide are now all remote) as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
What they said: “We’ve seen an unprecedented spike in Teams usage,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post, “and now have more than 44 million daily users, a number that has grown by 12 million in just the last seven days. And those users have generated more than 900 million meeting and calling minutes on Teams each day this week.”
What’s new? Teams has added a number of new features to the system, including real-time noise suppression to eliminate unnecessary sounds like keyboard taps or sirens from your meeting, an option to raise your hand to let people know you have something to say, and pop-out chats for multiple conversations.
