Subj : Microsofts new Teams app for Windows is in public preview
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Mon Mar 27 2023 16:15:03

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 

> This Microsoft Teams update could fix one of its biggest issues - but only 
if we all behave 

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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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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/news/microsofts-new-teams-app-for-windows-is-in-publ
ic-preview


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