Today, we’re excited to announce basic availability of the brand new Microsoft Teams app for Windows and Mac together with training prospects. We’re additionally starting to roll out new Teams to public preview for our Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and authorities cloud prospects (GCC, GCC-H, DoD).
Earlier this 12 months, we ushered in a new period of Microsoft Teams with the general public preview of the new Teams app. Our objective was to reimagine Teams from the bottom as much as ship a quicker, easier, smarter, and extra versatile app that will help you keep productive and collaborate extra successfully. The preview model of latest Teams was as much as two occasions quicker whereas utilizing 50% much less reminiscence.
We have made notable progress because the launch of latest Teams in public preview. New Teams now has full function parity for nearly all options together with customized line-of-business apps, third-party apps, breakout rooms, 7×7 video, name queues, PSTN calling, contextual search in chats and channels, cross-post a channel dialog, and extra. We have centered on offering high-quality efficiency and enhancing the fundamentals in areas comparable to reliability, safety, and IT administration to ensure that new Teams meets the evolving necessities of your group.
With the transfer to basic availability, new options and enhancements will likely be accessible completely on new Teams. New Teams contains assist for Multi-tenant organizations (MTO) and multi-tenant, multi-account (MTMA), which allow seamless cross-tenant communication and collaboration past organizational boundaries throughout a number of tenants and accounts.
Upgrading to new Teams is fast and seamless — no migration is required! Classic Teams customers will likely be robotically upgraded to new Teams within the coming months. To get began in your new Teams journey as we speak, merely flip the toggle within the upper-left nook of the basic Teams app. With only one click on, you may be part of thousands and thousands of customers who’re counting on new Teams to remain linked with colleagues, companions, and prospects and obtain extra collectively. This report from GigaOm, an unbiased analyst agency, will clarify why you must prioritize upgrading to new Teams in your group.
A quicker app optimized for efficiency on a number of platforms
We constructed new Teams on the React framework to enhance the pace and efficiency of the app on Windows. Using Edge WebView2 because the host for the brand new Teams app helped us scale back reminiscence utilization and disk house as assets are shared with Edge. Our efforts to replace the core know-how have been an excellent transfer in direction of offering a extra environment friendly and reliable Teams app. GigaOm reported new Teams to be on common two occasions quicker when loading the app, becoming a member of conferences, and switching chats and channels, and consuming as much as 50% much less reminiscence and disk house than basic Teams.
We’re additionally seeing vital efficiency enhancements on Mac, together with the power to modify between chats and channels quicker, and entry related info rapidly and effectively with a quicker scrolling expertise. Teams works natively on Mac, giving Mac customers an improved app expertise. Mac customers will now expertise a lift in efficiency resulting from extra environment friendly use of gadget assets and an optimized Teams expertise even when utilizing a number of high-resolution displays throughout calls or conferences. Some of the brand new safety enhancements on Mac are improved app safety by a containerized app mannequin, simplified app updates by way of Microsoft AutoUpdate, and internet safety enhancements comparable to Content Security Policy, Trusted Types and extra. Refer to our public preview announcement weblog to be taught extra concerning the simplified IT administration and superior safety measures with new Teams.
With new Teams, we additionally present a quicker app that has been optimized for extra environment friendly use of system assets in your VDI setting. We have noticed enhancements in latency for key eventualities comparable to app launch, swap chat, and be part of conferences when testing the general public preview construct that’s rolling out this month in contrast with basic Teams.
An easier person expertise that makes it simpler to do extra in fewer clicks
New Teams gives a simplified and streamlined person expertise, that makes it simpler so that you can personalize experiences, keep on high of your notifications, and get extra achieved in fewer clicks. We’re excited to roll out enhanced personalization choices that permit Windows and Mac customers extra management over the person interface. New Teams will robotically choose gentle or darkish mode and swap primarily based in your system settings, serving to Teams higher mix into your workspace. New Teams has improved assist for customers with colour sensitivity, utilizing Windows 11 distinction themes so customers can choose a colour palette that works greatest for his or her wants. You can effectively maintain monitor of your messages and notification exercise, with options like “mark all as learn” in exercise, rolling out now; and “mark all as learn” in chats or channels, coming quickly to new Teams.
With new Teams, we’re additionally rolling out enhancements to optimize the expertise for individuals who use keyboard shortcuts or display readers to verify everybody can use Teams extra inclusively. You can use keyboard shortcuts extra successfully on new Teams by seamlessly navigating between record gadgets comparable to exercise feed and chat threads, permitting you to get extra achieved with even fewer key presses. We’ve made some usability enhancements for our customers who use display readers. These enhancements make it easier to keep away from repeated info, interpret the widespread duties extra simply, and prepare channel conversations extra successfully, whether or not they’re unique posts or responses to posts, and extra.
A extra versatile app for seamless cross-tenant communication and collaboration
Organizations usually discover themselves managing a number of tenants whether or not by mergers and acquisitions, or the necessity to assist world subsidiaries and check environments. The new multi-tenant organizations (MTO) functionality in new Teams permits a extra seamless expertise when collaborating with coworkers in an MTO group and accessing assets in different tenants of the group, no matter how the identification infrastructure is managed. MTO helps ship wealthy collaboration and full-fidelity assembly expertise whereas eliminating silos and bringing customers collectively throughout tenant boundaries. MTO permits customers to attach and collaborate with the proper customers with improved individuals search outcomes throughout a number of tenants.
Features comparable to multi-tenant and multi-account (MTMA) in new Teams allow you to collaborate extra successfully throughout organizational boundaries, keep signed into a number of accounts concurrently, and obtain real-time notifications regardless of which one is at the moment in use. You can seamlessly have interaction with customers throughout a number of accounts and organizations with out having to drop out of a name or assembly, guaranteeing no disruption to your workflow.
The cross-cloud authenticated assembly function in new Teams means that you can seamlessly be part of a gathering hosted in any Microsoft cloud, whether or not it’s industrial or authorities cloud, with out having to signal out of your account in your house tenant. The host verifies the identities of the members when the assembly begins. You may be assured that different members cannot entry some other info from the host tenant.
A better Teams app to degree up your productiveness
New Teams is the muse for next-generation AI experiences, comparable to Microsoft Copilot. Copilot in Teams works alongside you that will help you keep on high of your duties by enabling you to rise up to hurry on conversations, run more practical conferences, and produce every thing collectively in a single place. Copilot in Teams chat helps you rise up to hurry on conversations by rapidly reviewing the details, motion gadgets, and selections with out having to scroll by lengthy threads. You can unlock your assembly productiveness through the use of Copilot in Teams conferences to summarize key dialogue factors—together with who stated what and the place individuals are aligned or disagree—and counsel motion gadgets, all in actual time throughout a gathering. Using the ability of Microsoft Graph, Copilot can discover and use data that is buried in paperwork, shows, emails, calendar invitations, notes, and contacts and produce every thing collectively in your Teams app.
Get began in your new Teams journey as we speak
New Teams permits us to ship new capabilities to market quicker. Moving ahead, new options and capabilities in addition to enhancements to present options will likely be accessible completely in new Teams.
It solely takes one click on to improve to the brand new Teams. You can simply choose up and resume precisely the place you left off in basic Teams and your chat messages, Teams and channels, and apps will seem in new Teams.
For our enterprise prospects, beginning with Current Channel, this announcement marks the start of displaying the brand new Teams toggle to finish customers throughout the basic Teams app. We will quickly start making new Teams the default app for all Teams customers primarily based on our schedule, which is detailed on this web page.
If you may have questions on this announcement or need extra info on learn how to make the swap to new Teams, learn the weblog publish from our workforce and go to the new Teams microsite.
Join us for our AMA (Ask Microsoft Anything) concerning the new Microsoft Teams on Thursday, October 26, 2023 at 9amPT.