Teams are now available without Office 365 subscription

Microsoft publishes a free version of the available teams.

Microsoft makes teams available in free version, regardless of a subscription to Office 365. The free version is offered in 40 languages ​​and is ideal for freelancers, startups or small businesses, Redmond writes.

The free version offers unlimited messaging and searches up to 300 users. Users get 2GB of personal storage and 10GB of storage for the entire team. The tool also provides audio and video calls to individuals and groups, as well as the ability to integrate up to 140 third-party applications, such as Adobe, Evernote or Trello. The hope of Redmond is probably that the users of the free version will sooner or later choose an Office or Microsoft 365 subscription.

Compared to Slack, the free version of the teams is more extensive, as summarized in the summary. American & # 39; Computerworld & # 39; Team Online integrates with teams, while Slack does not have Office integration.

are. Microsoft offers unlimited search; Slack is limited to 10,000 messages. In addition, the space is lower in the free Slack version. Although Microsoft also offers audio and video telephony for groups, this feature is limited to two participants in Slack.

Other Enhancements for Microsoft 365
The bundled package Microsoft 365 includes the collaboration tool as well as Office 365, Windows 10 and security and mobility solutions. Microsoft 365 has been available for about a year. Now, Redmond announces some innovations. These include Microsoft Whiteboard for Windows 10 and soon also for iOS and as a Web version. The whiteboard can be used in real time, writes the company. It can be used with a pen, key or keyboard and allows not only text entry, but also free drawings, inserting images from the web

Team members can work together on the whiteboard

and create notes and tables.

Also new: the ability to create events and stream them as live or on-demand video in Microsoft 365. Events include a timeline feature that allows you to automatically return to a specific speaker, as well as the transcription of the voice to the text.

A new Workplace Analytics solution for Microsoft 365 is also deployed in a preview version. This allows him to assess how colleagues work together, whether meetings are effective or if employees work too much in their spare time. In addition, Microsoft MyAnalytics takes place in Microsoft 365, a tool that gives tips to users in Outlook. He should suggest, for example, to block nominations for his own work, when the agenda fills up slowly. (Kjo)