The novel coronavirus has helped bring more people to Teams in Europe and elsewhere.
The new 44 million figure for Teams was for Wednesday; there were 32 million daily users last Wednesday, March 11. Slack most recently provided engagement statistics in October, saying that there were"COVID-19 has impacted the lives of people around the world. We believe it will be a turning point for the way people will work and learn," Jared Spataro, a Microsoft corporate vice president, wrote in a statement the company provided in an email on Wednesday.
This week there were 14 times more Teams users in the Netherlands than there were one week earlier, Spataro told CNBC during a video call on Teams on Tuesday. There were 10 times more users in Spain and seven times more in France, he said. Accenture, Continental AG, Ernst & Young, Pfizer and SAP are among the 20 customers with over 100,000 active users of Teams, Spataro said.
Teams is included in corporate subscriptions to Office 365 bundle. There were more than 200 million commercial Office 365 monthly active users inMicrosoft is bringing new features to Teams, including the ability to upload and show a custom background behind themselves on video calls, rather than using stock images. That capability has been popular in Zoom for months.
Microsoft will deliver technology that hides noises like typing or rustling through pages during video calls so that users can hear what speakers are saying. Users who want to speak up on crowded calls will be able to hit a button to display an icon of a raised hand. And users will be able to read and write chat messages even without an internet connection.
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