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Microsoft begins previewing consumer friendly features for Teams

Back in March, Microsoft announced that it was working on new features for Teams. While Teams is predominantly used for work, these new features would make it easier to use Teams for work and personal use.

Among these features was the ability to store important things such as your home’s WiFi password or share a grocery list. These features would simply add to Microsoft Teams’ chat, video calling and group functionality.

“Our goal is that Teams will become the messaging hub for all your personal chats and video and voice calls, with fun features like sharing GIFs, photos, videos, documents, and even location already integrated,” Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Modern Life, Search and Devices, Liat Ben-Zur explained in a blog post.

Scrolling through the aforementioned blog post we aren’t sure how to feel about this.

On the one hand, Microsoft Teams for your family just feels a bit too, professional. For instance, I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve had to share a Word document with my family, but apparently this is a problem that needed solving.

“Teams integrates with your other Microsoft 365 apps so you can easily share from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint right from within the Teams app, whether you’re planning your family budget, or like me, trying to prepare your kids’ summer schedules,” says Ben-Zur.

On the other hand, some of these features are rather cool. The fact that you can share your location incredibly easily via Teams could be rather useful for families, you know, when we’re allowed to leave our homes for anything other than work, school or groceries.

With all of this having been said there is an elephant in the room we haven’t addressed – WhatsApp.

While Teams does offer a lot more than Facebook’s mobile messenger, folks know WhatsApp and have made-do over the years as regards sharing information.

What’s more is that with apps such as Google’s suite of web-based office applications, folks don’t really need Microsoft 365 integration.

We understand Microsoft’s play here, it wants to be the messaging app for work and play but insofar as the latter is concerned, Microsoft might be a few years late, again.

To test out these feature you will need the Microsoft Teams app for mobile. Open the app and tap, Add an account. Sign in to your personal Microsoft account and you are ready to go. Users are able to seamlessly switch between accounts.

[Source – Microsoft]

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