More than 13 million people now use Microsoft Teams daily

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After nearly two years of its launch, Microsoft Teams has now reached 13 million daily active users. Early this year, Slack announced that it has 10 millions daily active users and I’m sure Slack would have not gained over 3 million new active users in the past 6 months. So, Microsoft Teams is now ahead of Slack and you can expect Teams to continue to widen its lead in the coming months. Microsoft also mentioned that more than 19 million people use Microsoft Teams weekly.

To celebrate this milestone, Microsoft today announced several new features that are coming to Teams, read about them below.

  • Priority notificationsย alert recipients of time-sensitive messages, pinging a recipient every two minutes on their mobile and desktop until a response is received.
  • Read receiptsย in chat displays an icon to indicate when a message you sent has been read by the recipient.
  • Announcementsย allow team members to highlight important news in a channel and are a great way to kick off a new project, welcome a new colleague, or share results from a recent marketing campaign.
  • Channel cross postingย allows you to post a single message in multiple channels at the same time.
  • Channelย moderationย allows moderators to manage what gets posted in a channel and whether a post accepts replies.
  • The newย time clockย feature in the Teams Shifts module allows workers to clock in and out of their work shifts and breaks right from their Teams mobile app. Managers have the option toย geo-fence aย location to ensure team members are at the designatedย worksite when clocking in or out.
  • Targeted communicationย allows team owners to message everyone in a specific role at the same time by @mentioning the role name in a post. For example, you could send a message to all cashiers in a store or all nurses in a hospital.
  • The Teams client isย now availableย to existing installations of Office 365 ProPlus on the Monthly Channel.
  • Policy packages in the Teams admin centerย enable IT admins to apply a pre-defined set of policies across Teams functions, such as messaging and meetings, to employees based on the needs of their role.

Source: Microsoft

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