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Microsoft launches free version of "Teams"

Mary Jo Foley (ZDNet.com) Translation Proofreading: Editorial Department

2018-07-13 08:23

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  • Microsoft announced that it has started offering a free version of the group chat platform "Microsoft Teams" from July 12, US time.

    The free version of Teams is available even if you haven't registered for the business version of Office 365. Also, you don't have to register with Microsoft's email address, you can use it with any email address.

    The free version supports 40 languages. You can start using it from Office.com/TeamsFree.

    The number of users is up to 300, and it seems that it is suitable for use by small and medium-sized enterprises. Key features include unlimited chat messages and searches, voice and video calls between individuals, groups, and teams, 10GB of team file storage and 2GB of personal storage per person, and the Office Online (web) app. For example, integration with.

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    Paid-only features not offered in the free version include pre-scheduled meetings, meeting recording with Microsoft Stream, enforcement of multi-factor authentication for all users, and tools for managing users and apps. .. The author believes that the free version is intended as a trial service that encourages users to upgrade to the paid version.

    In addition, Microsoft announced a new feature that allows you to create live events and more in Microsoft 365. According to Microsoft, these live event features will be equipped with AI to provide speaker timeline capabilities, as well as voice-to-text transcription, timecode and transcription retrieval, and more.

    Microsoft also officially announced on the same day that the "Microsoft Whiteboard" app was generally available for "Windows 10". According to Microsoft, the "iOS" version will be available "soon" and the web version will be available in preview soon.

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