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MICROSOFT TEAMS PASSES 44 MILLION DAILY ACTIVE USERS, THANKS IN PART TO
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March 19, 2020 6:00 AM
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Microsoft Teams, which launched worldwide in March 2017, passed 32 million daily
active users (DAUs) this month. A week later, thanks in part to COVID-19, usage
had spiked to 44 million DAUs. That’s up from 20 million daily active users in
November, a 60-110% jump in just four months. Microsoft used the product’s
three-year anniversary to share the new figures and announce new Teams features
targeting “underserved professionals, including firstline and health care
workers.”

Teams is the company’s Office 365 chat-based collaboration tool that competes
with Slack (12 million DAUs as of October), Facebook’s Workplace (3 million paid
users as of October), and Google’s Hangouts Chat (no user number shared). It’s
also Microsoft’s fastest-growing business app ever. But the company has been
criticized for how it calculates its DAU figure, so today it shared its
methodology. “We define daily active usage as the maximum daily users performing
an intentional action in a 24-hour period across the desktop client, mobile
client, and web client. Intentional actions include sending or replying to a
chat, joining a meeting, or opening a file in Teams. Passive actions like auto
boot, minimizing a screen, or closing the app are not included.”

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In an advanced press briefing, Microsoft originally shared the 32 million
figure. We naturally asked how the COVID-19 pandemic might have impacted the
number, given that companies are increasingly asking their employees to work
from home and Microsoft Teams experienced an outage as a result of the increased
usage. “Our customers have certainly turned to Teams during this challenging
time, and we’ve seen usage spikes in markets most impacted by COVID-19,” Jared
Spataro, Microsoft 365 corporate vice president, told VentureBeat. “We measured
32 million DAU on March 11, before we began to see the full impact that COVID-19
is having on usage.”

Late last night, Spataro sent over an update: “The last seven days, however,
have shown the sheer unprecedented nature of the global demand we’re seeing now
for solutions that enable remote work and learning across chat, video, and file
collaboration, which Teams provides in a single platform. As previously shared,
as of March 11, 2020 we counted 32 million daily users of Teams, which was
mostly in line with our growth trajectory and projections. As of March 18, 2020,
that number has grown by 12 million to 44 million daily users around the world.”

Put another way, COVID-19 added one Slack to Microsoft Teams’ DAUs in just a
week.


MICROSOFT TEAMS NEW FEATURES

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In addition to the new DAU figure, Microsoft revealed some new features coming
to Teams “later this year.” None is available today — they’re merely being
announced.



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Real-time noise suppression is designed to minimize distracting background noise
during a call. Microsoft gave three examples: someone typing on their keyboard
while in a meeting (we’ve all been there), the rustling of a bag of chips, and a
vacuum cleaner running in the background. The feature uses AI to remove the
noise so you can hear what is being said on the call.

Teams is also getting a hand-raising feature, which is geared toward large
meetings, where it’s sometimes more difficult for remote participants to chime
in. Anyone in the meeting can click the “raise hand” icon to send a visual
signal that they have something to say.

Offline and low-bandwidth support will do exactly what you’d expect. If you have
a poor internet connection or none at all, you will still be able to read chat
messages and write responses. Microsoft Teams will automatically send and
retrieve messages on your behalf when it can.

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Coming soon, Teams will let you pop chats out into a separate window. This
should be useful for when you want to keep a specific conversation going but
still keep working in Teams.

Features aside, Microsoft highlighted a new integration between Teams and
RealWear head-mounted devices, which is meant to help firstline workers access
information and communicate hands-free with remote experts from their job site.
The company also introduced Microsoft 365 Business Voice in the U.S. and a new
Microsoft 365 Enterprise plan with licensing options for firstline workers.
Lastly, Microsoft mentioned two new third-party devices: the first collaboration
bar certified for Teams (the Yealink VC210, now generally available), and the
Bose Noise Cancelling headphone 700 UC (available for purchase in late spring).

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