Microsoft Corporation Announces General Availability of Teams Essentials
December 01, 2021 at 11:00 am EST
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Microsoft Corp. announced the general availability of Teams Essentials. Teams Essentials gives small businesses a professional and affordable meetings solution to support collaboration, connection and productivity in a hybrid work environment. At USD 4 per person, per month, Teams Essentials is the most competitively priced online meetings and collaboration solution in the market. Teams Essentials provides expansive limits and features for hosting professional meetings and collaborating in one place: Unlimited group meetings for up to 30 hours; Meetings with up to 300 people; 10 GB of cloud storage per user. Teams Essentials also includes existing and new capabilities available in the free version of Teams to meet the needs of small businesses: Simple, easy invitations require only an email address. Users are not required to sign up, sign in or install Teams to participate in a meeting. In addition to Outlook Calendar integration, new Google Calendar integration makes it easy to schedule meetings in Microsoft Teams, Coming soon. Professional meeting tools and capabilities like meeting lobby, virtual backgrounds, Together mode, live closed captions and live reactions. Never lose context or continuity with always-availablechats in Microsoft Teams. Quickly start a group project and host meetings with anyone, assign tasks to teammates, and create polls to receive feedback quickly all in one hub with the new small-business group chat template, Coming soon to desktop and web.
Microsoft Corporation is the world's leader in the design, development and marketing of operating systems and software programs for PC's and servers. The group also builds and sells computer equipment. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- sale of operating systems and application development tools (47.9%): primarily for servers (Azure, SQL Server, Windows Server, Visual Studio, System Center, GitHub, etc.) and (Windows);
- development of cloud-based software applications (23%): programs for productivity (Microsoft 365; Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher and Access), integrated management and customer relationship management (Dynamics 365), online file sharing and management (OneDrive), and unified and collaborative communications (Skype and Microsoft Teams);
- sale of video gaming hardware and software (7.3%) : mainly Xbox;
- enterprise services (3.6%);
- sale of computers, tablets and accessories (2.6%);
- other (15.6%).
The United States accounts for 50.4% of net sales.