Microsoft Teams Premium Preview shows off some interesting new features
Interestingly, in the wake of recent EU scrutiny about anti-trust and anti-competitive practices, Microsoft has recently announced a new Teams Premium model, that is predicted to cost $10 every month per profile. Having a price point for Teams Premium will go some way toward addressing the issues raised by Slack, which the EU was beginning to investigate. The feature isn’t due to launch until February, but Microsoft has released a preview of the new Premium offering, which is available now.
It looks like Microsoft’s plan is to offer a boosted version of Teams in exchange for the monthly fee rather than simply charging users to access Teams. There are some very interesting features included in the preview, such as live translated transcriptions, which is similar to a new premium feature, which Zoom announced back in August. Accessing the live translation Zoom feature requires a premium subscription and then a $ 5-a-month subscription on top to specifically access the feature.
Other new features that will come packed in the Premium version of Teams will include extended branding features, which could mean the app is looking to be more useful for virtual presentations and maybe even conferences as well as simply being able to facilitate meetings and chat. This is borne out by the inclusion of the ability to:
“Deliver a high-quality webinar experience through advanced capabilities to streamline event workflows with registration waitlist and manual approval, facilitate behind-the-scene actions through virtual green room for presenters (separate from attendees) before the event begins, and manage the attendee experience so they only see shared content and participants brought on-screen.”
Microsoft is also saying that there will be improved end-to-end encryption for Teams Premium, which clearly demonstrates one of those examples of things you didn’t know you needed until you realized you didn’t have it.
Another potentially useful feature that Microsoft plans to hide behind a $ 10-a-month subscription is the intelligent meeting recap feature, which will use AI to automatically write a summary of the meeting based on the live transcription it was able to capture during the meeting. There is no doubt just how useful this feature is, as it will likely take work away from those who are attending meetings specifically to carry out this task.
According to the blog post announcing the Teams Premium Preview, signing up to access the preview can only be done Microsoft 365 Admin Center.
Are these articles AI generated?
Now the duplicates are more obvious.
This is below AI generated crap. It is copy of Microsoft Help website article without any relevant supporting text. Anyway you can find this information on many pages.
Yes, but why post the exact same article under a different title twice on the same day (19 march 2023), by two different writers?
1.) Excel Keyboard Shortcuts by Trevor Monteiro.
2.) 70+ Excel Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows by Priyanka Monteiro
Why oh why?
Yeah. Tell me more about “Priyanka Monteiro”. I’m dying to know. Indian-Portuguese bot ?
Probably they will announce that the taskbar will be placed at top, right or left, at your will.
Special event by they is a special crap for us.
If it’s Microsoft, don’t buy it.
Better brands at better prices elsewhere.
All new articles have zero count comments. :S
WTF? So, If I add one photo to 5 albums, will it count 5x on my storage?
It does not make any sense… on google photos, we can add photo to multiple albums, and it does not generate any additional space usage
I have O365 until end of this year, mostly for onedrive and probably will jump into google one
Photo storage must be kept free because customers chose gadgets just for photos and photos only.
What a nonsense. Does it mean that albums are de facto folders with copies of our pictures?
Sounds exactly like the poor coding Microsoft is known for in non-critical areas i.e. non Windows Core/Office Core.
I imagine a manager gave an employee the task to create the album feature with hardly any time so they just copied the folder feature with some cosmetic changes.
And now that they discovered what poor management results in do they go back and do the album feature properly?
Nope, just charge the customer twice.
Sounds like a go-getter that needs to be promoted for increasing sales and managing underlings “efficiently”, said the next layer of middle management.
When will those comments get fixed? Was every editor here replaced by AI and no one even works on this site?
Instead of a software company, Microsoft is now a fraud company.
For me this is proof that Microsoft has a back-door option into all accounts in their cloud.
quote “…… as the MSA key allowed the hacker group access to virtually any cloud account at Microsoft…..”
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so this MSA key which is available to MS officers can give access to all accounts in MS cloud.This is the backdoor that MS has into the cloud accounts. Lucky I never got any relevant files of mine in their (MS) cloud.
>”Now You: what is your theory?”
That someone handed an employee a briefcase full of cash and the employee allowed them access to all their accounts and systems.
Anything that requires 5-10 different coincidences to happen is highly unlikely. Occam’s razor.
Good reason to never login to your precious machine with a Microsoft a/c a.k.a. as the cloud.
The GAFAM are always very careless about our software automatically sending to them telemetry and crash dumps in our backs. It’s a reminder not to send them anything when it’s possible to opt out, and not to opt in, considering what they may contain. And there is irony in this carelessness biting them back, even if in that case they show that they are much more cautious when it’s their own data that is at stake.