Microsoft Teams, a boon or a bane?

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The current insidious and invidious pestilence – Covid-19 gave the world no option but to restrict people to their homes to safeguard themselves from the dangerous virus attacks. This gave impetus to the video calling apps and took the software Olympics to another level altogether. There is no wonder the top video calling apps witnessed their Downloads to be hundredfold during the recent past.  You have in this blog, the gamut of benefits that one will get by using Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft’s Flagship video conferencing app Teams is a big leap into Video calling technology (What about Skype?). The tech giant, who powers more than 80% of today’s Computers and enjoys a virtual monopoly for long over the operating systems has now made its presence in Video Calling segment as well.

Microsoft Teams as the name implies is a team collaboration application intended to help teams collaborate and work together. Powered by Microsoft, Teams offer turnkey solutions apart from the basic chat, call, video conference, call recording, and file sharing features. For instance, Users can view all the teams that they are part of and classify those teams topic-wise or department-wise or using other criteria. These channels help Users set-up on the spot calls whenever they want to. They can as well edit the files in real-time while on chat/call and provide their feedback on chats using the Like button (thumbs up). All these tasks mentioned above can be managed from one screen.

The video conferencing option of Microsoft Teams can display up to 9 people on the screen. Team members can exceed up to 999 per team. The UI and UX of the application are so simple that users from laymen to laity can easily tour through.

Scheduling meetings on Teams is ridiculously easy as it quickly syncs with our Outlook Calendar. On the other hand, Microsoft Teams is a highly secure workspace yet flexible to manage with various levels of user access controls and permissions. Administrators can either handle the entire workload by themselves or can have the assigned permissions for troubleshooting. 

According to Microsoft, the free-to-download app is intended to bridge the gap among multiple teams while working virtually and is the best in the market for meetings for businesses ranging from SMEs and MSMEs to larger organizations. It is the more furbished version of Skype - the company’s default messaging app. Also, it is easier to integrate multiple apps to Microsoft Teams.

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