Microsoft announces a ton of new Teams features May 25, 2021 11:00 EDT with 1 comment Build is the time for lots of news related to Microsoft products, and Teams is no exception when it comes to getting new features announced. The communication service is getting a ton of new features for developers, starting with new features available to Teams apps. Soon, these apps will be able to leverage things like shared stage integration, now in preview, which allows an app to access the mains stage in a Teams meeting, to display a whiteboard or another collaboration tool, for example. Together mode extensibility is also in the works, meaning apps can create custom scenes for together mode, beyond the ones offered out of the box. Some new APIs will also be available soon, such as meeting event APIs that let apps automate certain aspects of meeting workflows, like setting a start and end time. This is now in preview, and more capabilities are planned for later this year. Coming soon, new media APIs will also allow apps to access audio and video streams in real time, be it for transcription, translation, gathering insights, and so on.