Microsoft adds Breakout functionality to Teams that Zoom has

Microsoft adds Breakout functionality to Teams that Zoom has had for ages – and people still don't like it


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Richard Speed
Mon 14 Dec 2020 // 14:10 UTC
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In Brief Microsoft's Teams continues to play catch-up to Zoom with the long-overdue implementation of Breakout rooms.
Finally hitting General Availability, the implementation deals with problematically large meetings by allowing the organiser to create up to 50 breakout rooms and either manually or automatically assign participants to those rooms.
The theory goes that attendees can chat away in their breakout room as well as being shifted around by the organiser as required.
Unlike Zoom, it is not yet possible to pre-assign attendees to breakout rooms when the meeting is scheduled, frustrating some users.

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