Microsoft Teams it is much more than a messaging and video conferencing application. It's about a team collaboration software included with Office 365 or available for free.
While this alternativa a Slack It is aimed at the business and educational sector, now it also seeks to become an application that helps manage the work and personal life of users.
Chat, video calls and team collaboration
Do you want to work remotely with your teammates or maintain communication with your family or friends? With the free version of Microsoft Teams Desktop you can send instant messages; to make video calls; to create, share and edit documents; share screens and whiteboards; store personal files (2GB) and team (10GB), Collaborate in real time with Office for the web and more.
However, unlike Webex Meetings for PC, the version free does not support scheduled meetings or meeting recording.
On the other hand, paid plans allow you to organize online meetings and video conferences for up to 250 people and events online for up to 10.000 participants. They also offer you 1 TB of OneDrive storage.
As with all workflow tools, the primary goal of Microsoft Teams is to connect staff and improve collaboration, providing an alternative or even replacing email communications.
Microsoft Teams for Windows
This remote work tool, that competes with Slack and will replace Skype for Business, is included with Office 365. Although you can also use Microsoft Teams free Logging in with your job, school, Microsoft personal email (Homail, Outlook) or another client (Gmail, etc.), no credit card.
The appearance of Microsoft Teams for PC and online is similar to that of Slack. However, behind its interface there are many features and functionalities that differentiate it from this platform.
To start using the application, you need to invite people to join your organization via link or email.
Later, you can create teams from scratch or from an Office group 365 existing. These teams can be private, public or organization-wide (all join automatically). Within the teams it is possible to create channels, which can be standard (accessible to all team members) or private.
Each channel has its own tabs: publications (group chat), files (shared documents), wiki. You can also add your own tabs (OneNote, PDF, etc.).
For his part, on the left side of the software are all areas: activity, chat, equipment, calls, files, apps and help.
Discussions take place in the conversation tab of the channels. From here you can send messages and any team member can reply. When someone answers, a thread will be created and all responses will hang on it.
In addition, when someone mentions you, A red icon will appear next to the message that will stand out from the rest.
At any time you can switch from chat to video calls with the push of a button.
Characteristics
- Collaborate on Office documents online from Teams.
- Until 500 thousand members.
- Unlimited search and chat messages.
- Attachments in chat (2 GB per user)
- Online audio and video calls.
- Guest access to Teams.
- Shared screen.
- Custom backgrounds.
- File sharing between teams and channels (10 GB on all computers)
- Background noise suppression.
- Raise your hand to ask to speak.
- Built-in auxiliary bots.
You can download the latest version of Microsoft Teams completely free for your Windows computer or laptop 10 Y 8.1. No support for Windows 7 or XP. It is also available for mobile devices (iOS and Android) and desktop (Mac y Linux).
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