Microsoft Teams exceeds 44 million daily active users and announces new features

The explosion forced the telework in many parts of the planet has led to a significant rise in the use of tools of business communication. As proof of this we have the unprecedented growth of Microsoft Teams.

The platform for the team work of Microsoft, which was launched worldwide three years ago, had reached its third anniversary this month surpassing the 32 million daily active users; a figure that with the crisis of the coronavirus has been surpassed. The usage figures have soared and Microsoft Teams currently registered more than 44 million active users daily.

For us to make an idea, last July Microsoft Teams had 13 million daily active users and in November that figure had risen up to 20 million. Slackthe reference of this segment of platforms, announced 12 million daily active users in October. Although it is foreseeable that during the last few weeks and those who come, like the rest, increase their records in an important way.

New features to the view

Coinciding with its third anniversary, its exponential growth and this health crisis that is promoting their use, Microsoft Teams has announced what will be your next new features. Functions to enhance the experience of the meetings, on the one hand, and specific solutions for professionals in the field of health, on the other.

The first of the characteristics has as a purpose the noise suppression in real-time. The idea is to remove all the sound that may be distracting during a meeting, as that could cause our keyboard to write or a vacuum cleaner automatically when you pass by our side. This will the artificial intelligence.

Another feature is destined to the numerous meetings, meetings which sometimes makes it difficult to organize the participation of all easily. To solve this problem, the Microsoft Team has thought to incorporate the function raise your hand

. To use it, alongside the image of the person you will see a picture of a hand indicating that he wants to say something. Without breaks or cuts during the speech of others.

The rest of the new features include a mode to read the messages offline, the ability to open chats in separate windows or the release of the app Bookings within Teams to facilitate the scheduling, managing and making appointments virtual, as medical.

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Microsoft Teams exceeds 44 million daily active users and announces new features

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