Microsoft announces new features coming to Teams to make group meetings easier

In the crucial moments in which we find ourselves, applications to communicate with family and friends and those designed to facilitate remote work have gained more prominence than at any other time. In a time of confinement, contact, even virtual, is essential

In the case of Microsoft we have Skype, both in the recreational and professional field, but also with Teams, the tool of the American company designed to facilitate teamwork. A utility that Microsoft announces will receive, five new features coming this year, some this month.

Greater control of meetings

Functions that seek to facilitate the intervention and control of users when they participate in multi-way conversations such as the announcement of participation with the function of raising the hand, the possibility of closing a meeting for all at once or obtaining participation reports.

• Raise Hand Feature - An enhancement rolling out globally later this month that allows users to meeting participants indicate that they want to participate. Just click the manual lift icon on the meeting control bar.
• Easy ending a meeting: A meeting host(s) can now end a meeting for all participants with the click of a button on meeting control bar options.
• Participant Control: To know at all times who has joined a meeting, organizers can download a participant report , found in the list of participants. A report that includes registration and dismissal times for participants.

• Real-time noise suppression: the system makes use of Artificial Intelligence to reduce distracting background noise in meetings . It's a feature coming later this year.
• Custom backgrounds: You can replace the background in Teams meetings with your own custom images. Complements background blur, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to blur the environment behind us.

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