Every month Microsoft shares a long list of new Microsoft Teams updates to improve its user experience. This fall the changes involved meetings, chat, and calling features and now we would like to roll out here a summary with the most relevant ones: 

 

MEETINGS

  1. Payment system – This new feature will let people pay directly through a payment app in Microsoft Teams for classes, appointments, or events hosted on this platform. This app will be available firstly for businesses in the USA and Canada to be paid in just a few clicks during the meetings, after having connected to this app a third–party payment service such as PayPal or Stripe. 
  2. Speaker Coach – To improve how meetings are presented, the coach speaker service will share in real time on Microsoft Teams private suggestions and feedback on speaking skills, such as “talk slower” or “pay more attention to overlaps”. Valuable insights from the last meeting are also available in Microsoft Teams to let the speaker better perform in the next one.
  3. Assign virtual seats – An even more cutting-edge user experience will be available during meetings: organizers and presenters can assign virtual seats on Together Mode to make this virtual event more like an in-person one. From the settings options, it will be possible to drag and drop users’ icons to the desired seat.
  4. Captions transcription – Microsoft Teams premium subscribers can soon let all meeting attendees rely on a real-time captions translation during virtual events in 40 spoken languages. This will help people better to follow presentations by having a more accessible experience.
  5. Magnify Slide – From December 2022, attendees will privately zoom presentations during Microsoft Teams meetings to greater elements in the slides.

 

CHAT

  1. Video Clip – In Microsoft Teams chat, users can soon capture short video clips (up to a minute) to easily reply to a message. The video message can be edited, sent, and playback on desktop, mobile, and browser chat due by late November 2022.
  2. Unmanaged users invitation – The users external from the company can invite other people to join a group on Microsoft Teams and soon there will be available the possibility to accept this invitation or decide to decline it by leaving the group. A notification of this invitation will appear on Microsoft Teams and it advises the employee to be careful of unknown user messages because they could be spam or phishing attempts.

 

CALLING

  1. New call history – More information about calls will be shown on the Microsoft Teams call tab to get a more complete picture of the calling scenario. Users soon will be aware of how all the incoming calls were controlled once received and be informed if they have been transferred or forwarded to them. 
  2. Contact Groups – On the Call Apps, it will be possible to create groups of contacts and, of course, manage the already existing ones and their memberships. This contact organization will help users quickly search for people on the contacts repository.

 

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