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Microsoft announces new chat-
based workspace for Office 365,
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is an entirely new experience that brings together
people, conversations and content—along with the tools that
teams need—so they can easily collaborate to achieve more. It’s
naturally integrated with the familiar Office applications and is
built from the ground up on the Office 365 global, secure cloud.
M
icrosoft Corporation has
announced the general
availability of Microsoft
Teams, the company’s new chat-based
workspace in Office 365. The new tool
for team collaboration is now available
to Office 365 business customers in
181 markets and 19 languages.
Customers worldwide are
choosing Microsoft Teams to
enable collaboration within their
organizations. Since announcing the
preview in November, more than
50,000 organizations have started
using Microsoft Teams, including
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Alaska Airlines, ConocoPhillips,
Deloitte, Expedia, J.B. Hunt, J. Walter
Thompson, Hendrick Motorsports,
Sage, Trek Bicycle and Three UK.
“In a world where information is
abundant and human time and
attention remain scarce, we aspire to
help people and groups of people be
more productive, wherever they are,”
said Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft.
“Office 365 is the broadest platform
and universal toolkit for creation,
collaboration and communication.
Today we are adding a new tool to
Office 365 with Microsoft Teams, a
chat-based workspace designed to
empower the art of teams.”
Office 365 is designed to meet the
unique workstyle of every group with
purpose-built, integrated applications:
Outlook for enterprise-grade email;
SharePoint for intelligent content
management; Yammer for networking
across the organization; Skype
for Business as the backbone for
enterprise voice and video; and now,
Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft has introduced more than
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