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Here are the latest features Microsoft added to Teams in November 2022


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7×7 Group Video Grid: is now automatic instead of selectable.

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Microsoft rolled out dozens of new features to Teams in November, as well as basic performance upgrades.

Fan polls now feature one-click instant polls that allow meeting participants to quickly form opinions with binary answers like yes /no, thumbs up/dislike, heart/broken heart. These can be done quickly by presenters so that they can react rather than stage them in advance. Microsoft boasts that Teams is the only app with one-click instant binary voting.

“With our competitors, presenters must take the time to draft a poll first,” Microsoft noted in the November 2022 Teams update.

According to Microsoft, teams with about 270 million monthly active users, are adding new features at a rate more than a day. In July, Microsoft reported that it had added 450 capabilities to Teams over the past year.

Now, Teams users can also automatically view up to 49 videos in Teams meetings in a 7×7 grid. Previously, it only showed 9 videos automatically, meaning users had to manually select the Gallery view to see all 49 videos. The actual number of videos that users watch will depend on hardware/device capabilities, Microsoft notes.

November also saw an upgrade to the Teams desktop client after Microsoft upgraded its Electron-based app. Switch between chats and switch between channels was significantly faster compared to the last major upgrade in June 2020.

Before that, in October, Microsoft announced the Teams Premium add-on for $10 per user per month. This will provide users with additional AI features such as meeting guidance, branding, smart summaries, AI-generated tasks, personalized insights, smart search, Direct translation for subtitles and additional security.

Teams on the web in Chrome and Edge browsers was updated in November to improve calling and meetings with pre-join, improved dynamic views, and an updated control bar.

Microsoft has also implemented transcription for face-to-face and group calls on the Teams app for Android.

For hybrid workplaces, Microsoft has updated Team Rooms on Windows to block the video stream of room participants on the screen in front of the room. When a user joins an existing meeting in a Team Room using a personal laptop, the video library on both the Team Room and the laptop in the room is optimized to show only the video streams of attendees from far, Microsoft notes.

To combat spam, chat in Teams now allows users to accept or block group chat invitations from unmanaged users.

And to cater to organizations that work in multiple time zones, Microsoft added scheduled delivery — like delaying email delivery in Outlook. The user can choose a future date and time the message will be sent.

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