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Zoom copies Microsoft Teams with Immersive View Zoom copies Microsoft Teams with Immersive View Teams has been chasing Zoom for years. Now it's the other way around. Credit: Dreamstime Microsoft Teams has chased Zoom and other videoconferencing apps for years, taking the best of what they have to offer and integrating it. Now, the opposite is true: Zoom is taking Teams’ “Together Mode” and putting it into Zoom. Zoom’s calling this “Immersive View,” but the principle is the same. Instead of stitching together a number of individual video windows into a video gallery, Im...

Businesses have always used collaboration tools, but have COVID lockdowns radically altered these tools, and how they are used? One of the starkest consequences of the pandemic is the fragmentation of workforces. Mass working from home was at first expected to be short-term, but now looks set to become permanent as companies look to radically alter how they organise and manage their employees. Businesses have used collaboration tools for decades, allowing individuals and teams to work efficiently together. COVID-19 made these tools vital and a hub around which workers could congregate. Howeve...

Microsoft made a bunch of announcements for its Microsoft Teams app including end-to-end encryption, Microsoft Teams Connect, and much more

With files from Tom Li. It’s an annual tradition: Microsoft hosts an Ignite conference and announces a bunch of updates for Teams. The tech giant didn’t disappoint this year during its virtual conference. Microsoft Teams Connect Shared channel (Source: Microsoft) Microsoft says Connect uses commonly used Teams capabilities, such as chat, meetings, app collaboration and real-time document co-authoring, all while maintaining control over how users access data and information. With Teams Connect shared channels, multiple individuals or organizations can share a single channel that all member...

Microsoft has announced new features for Microsoft Teams along with supported hardware at the ongoing Ignite 2021 annual conference for developers. Microsoft Teams will now support end-to-end encryption. It also gets a new Connect feature to share channels internally or externally and support for Microsoft Teams Intelligent speakers that can differentiate between voices of up to 10 participants.