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The new free Windows Teams features are rolling out now to Windows 11, iOS, and Android users. They also include new camera features for the mobile versions, and adding Teams calls to GroupMe.

The intelligent meeting recap feature in Microsoft Teams Premium will use AI to automatically create an overview of an online meeting so people who miss it will get all the info they need.

The new feature will allow users to change the font color and size of captions in Microsoft Teams Meetings, along with other options like increasing the number of lines that are shown on the screen.

The previously revealed Avatars are just some of the new features that are coming in the near future to Microsoft Teams users, including Microsoft Mesh-powered immersive spaces and more.

How to watch and what to expect from Microsoft Build 2023? This AI-focused developer conference will last three days. Here's everything you need to know about Microsoft Build 2023 event.

The Polls app will allow Microsoft Teams channel meetings users to quickly add in polls. Teachers could use it to quiz students, while businesses could use it to get feedback from customers.

The new Shuffle feature in Microsoft Teams allows meeting organizers to randomly assign online attendees to Breakout rooms, in order to assist with more lively brainstorming sessions.

The new Together Mode improvements in the Microsoft Teams public preview also include the ability to see raised hands and name labels with a status icon on the screen, among other changes.

Microsoft is working on a new feature for Teams that will allow you to get a compact chat list on the screen. On the Microsoft 365 Roadmap page, the company has explained how it will achieve it.

Microsoft and Builder.ai have formed a strategic partnership that will see their services more tightly integrated. Builder.ai also disclosed that it has received an equity investment from Microsoft.

The collection of new Microsoft Teams virtual backgrounds is the biggest update for this feature since it was added in 2020, and they are separated into six different categories for users.

Microsoft has released its monthly round-up of all the features and improvements it added to Teams this April. Some of these include ultrasound howling detection and green screens in Meetings.

The new Payments app will allow small businesses to collect money from an online Microsoft Teams meeting on the desktop or mobile platforms, including support for PayPal, Stripe, and more providers.

Welcome back to another edition of Microsoft Weekly where we recap all the important events that happened in the Redmond technology giant's universe in the past few days. Dive right in!

Microsoft is adding the option to pause automatic firmware updates in Teams for Android. Added earlier today, this new feature was spotted in the Microsoft 365 roadmap and it will be out soon.

The new Microsoft Teams desktop app will feature several security improvements, including using MSIX packages and App Installer for deployment and faster updates with Edge WebView2 runtime.

The unconfirmed report claims that Microsoft may decide to allow people to purchase its Teams online conferencing product without having to buy its Office suite of productivity products as well.

This week has been quite busy when it comes to Microsoft news. We have a lot to unpack including Windows bugs and their respective fixes, new GPT integrations, and upcoming Windows features.

The new Speaker View in Microsoft Teams will allow online meetings to put the emphasis on a main speaker, which can help with meetings that have a large number of online attendees.

The new controls, which were first revealed in February, will allow users in Teams meetings to control profane words when they speak and have their words transcribed into live captions.

An upcoming feature for Microsoft Teams Premium will let users check out an AI-created recap of a previous online meeting, including AI assistance when looking back at recordings and transcripts.

The new collection of Snapchat Lenses won't need any extra downloads as they have been integrated into the "classic" Microsoft Teams for Work for anyone who wants to liven up a Teams video chat.

The new feature in Microsoft Teams Meetings will allow users to add backgrounds during video meetings with "dynamic animation for a more immersive virtual environment" sometime in May

This week's Microsoft Weekly digest is chock-full of news items related to controversies related to AI-powered products, the arrival of free USBs for Windows Insiders, and multiple app updates.

The new My Day feature will allow users to view all of their upcoming events from both their work and personal tasks into one daily list. It should help people who have a lot of things to do daily.

Following Teams, Microsoft's Teams for Education is also getting a two times performance boost, alongside reduced CPU, RAM, disk, and other resource usages. There are also other new features.

Microsoft Teams will soon get a new feature to allow users to get rid of unread notifications in the Activity feed with just a click. The company is planning to introduce the capability next month.

The new feature is available in a public preview version, and lets Windows and Mac Microsoft Teams users to put in a green screen so any virtual background looks much better than normal.

The latest edition of Microsoft Weekly packs news items related to "Windows 12" leaks, some hidden capabilities in Windows 11, and a bunch of app updates, with a sprinkle of Windows 7 news.

Microsoft has published the release notes for all the improvements and changes it made to the Windows 11, desktop, web, and mobile version of Teams Free throughout the course of March 2023.

Microsoft has brought several sophisticated cybersecurity features to Teams through Microsoft Defender 365. However, the capabilities are only available to customers with certain licenses.

The Cisco Board Pro is among the new devices that are certified for Microsoft Teams Rooms, and some new features are on the way for Rooms users, including new ways to sign into accounts.

Microsoft has quietly announced a successor to the original Surface Hub 2S. The company's largest Surface computer is now a Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows device with a massive touchscreen.

Microsoft is working on two important changes for Teams mobile users, including an updated Chat details page, and the ability to attach cloud files in chat and channel. They are said to launch soon.

The 3D avatars, which were first announced way back in November 2021, are now available for Teams users in a public preview, before they get released in general availability in May.

The new version of Microsoft Teams for Windows on the desktop is now available as a public preview, with new features alongside performance improvements, and more will be revealed Tuesday.

The latest edition of Microsoft Weekly is filled to the brim with news about updates to Microsoft 365 apps and services like Teams and Edge, new features and bugs in Windows, and Copilot upgrades.