Microsofts new Teams app for Windows is in public preview

Date:
Mon, 27 Mar 2023 15:00:07 +0000

Description:
Fast, intuitive, and setting the groundwork for supporting Microsoft 365 Copilot.

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Following Microsofts announcement earlier in March 2023 that its bringing artificial intelligence and GPT-4 to Microsoft 365 at some point in the
future in the form of Microsoft 365 Copilot , it just announced an overhaul
to Microsoft Teams , its video conferencing software , to support it.

Ahead of the companys Enterprise Connect event, a new Teams app for Windows
is now available in public preview, with the tech giant claiming that its two times as fast and half as memory intensive.

In addition, its promised an intuitive visual overhaul (so you arent spending the whole day staring at the virtual equivalent of a dentists waiting room) thatll make notifications, messages, and channels available in fewer clicks. Smarter, Better, Faster, Stronger?

Microsoft has brought Teams into the twenty-first century by offering a feature Google Workspace has had for a good while: the ability to switch accounts without logging in and out.

However, its gone one better than Google. Rather than just remembering all of your accounts, Teams will give you notifications for all of them, no matter which one you are currently using. Read more

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Though Microsoft ultimately had nothing new to say about Copilot, it did describe the new app as a foundation for that feature, and mention that the preview release would be expanded to Mac users, as well as business organizations who have explicitly opted into the new app down the line.

All being well, New Teams will be generally available later this year. Who
can say if it'll taste worse and just be there to drum up nostalgia for the old one?



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