Microsoft opens the last week of this month of March 2023 in a big way, announcing important news for Teams in the framework of the celebration of its Enterprise Connect event, to the point of pointing out that its increasingly well-known productivity platform is entering in a new era, marked both by the arrival of the new Teams application in preview for Windows, and by the 59 more new features that will begin to roll out.
The most notable novelty is the new application for Windows in preview, developed completely from scratch, and which is faster in many aspects, as well as reducing memory consumption and internal storage space.
It also offers a simpler look and feel, with a streamlined, personalized and streamlined experience for accessing the rich set of features, and also offers greater flexibility, for which they have improved their authentication model, synchronization and notification systems.
All of these improvements will be noticed by Windows users, from those with low-end PCs to those with high-performance PCs, Microsoft noted in tests it conducted in partnership with independent benchmarking company GigaOm.
Some of the most outstanding novelties
Regarding the rest of the news, we can highlight the arrival of the collaborative notes for this coming month of April, which are also editable and allow synchronization wherever they are shared.
Avatars are also here to take a “much-needed camera break” during meetings, although busy-to-busy settings are also here to minimize distractions while in a meeting or call.
Click-to-call is the new option that will allow companies to place a widget on their respective web platforms to allow customers to connect with specific people from them, or enter a call or also connect with an automatic operator through of Teams, and that it will arrive throughout the next quarter in public preview.
Microsoft further notes that within the new channel experience, new features will arrive in preview in April, including the placement of the compose field and recent posts at the top of the page, and where each post becomes a a conversation itself, and for easy access, pinning posts are also allowed, and more.
There are also innovations for the digital whiteboard, offering numerous possibilities to use in the course of meetings, live transcriptions for all the languages ​​available in Teams Meetings are coming to the Web, and there is also a striking function in charge of howling detection by ultrasound, which the company describes:
When multiple people join a meeting in the same room, it creates a feedback loop that causes an echo, and in many cases the echo quickly turns into a howl (such as when a musician places a microphone too close to a speaker). ). If you join a meeting with multiple other people on laptops from the same location, we notify you that another Teams device is detected nearby and you’ve already joined the current meeting with audio. We’ll automatically mute the microphone and speakers of the person who joined after you and has their audio turned on.
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