Mary Jo Foley
for All About Microsoft
| June 17, 2021 — 13:00 GMT (14:00 BST)
| Topic: Collaboration
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Meeting content will be surrounded by contextual information like agenda, tasks and notes. The meeting chat will be visible to those in the Teams Room so they can see and respond to comments shared throughout the chat. More Teams desktop features will be coming to Teams Rooms this summer that are meant to bring more attention to remote participants in a meeting. These include live reactions, spotlight and the ability to pin multiple video streams (as of this fall) and chat bubbles when using the classic video grid layout. More clearly identifying those who speak in meetings via Teams intelligent speakers, which are now available from EPOS and Yealink. These speakers are designed for Teams Rooms and use Microsoft voice recognition technology that’s in Teams to identify people speaking in the room and apply their names to the meeting transcript. In addition, partners Jabra, Logitech, Poly and Neat are working on using AI-powered camera tech to provide new video views that will allow every person in the rooms to be seen more clearly.
Microsoft also is showing off today its updated digital Whiteboard, which will be available this summer. This new Whiteboard will allow all attendees to access the same digital canvas by allowing anyone to bring existing content to the whiteboard for coauthoring. New templates also are coming that will aim to help groups start creating content more quickly. In addition, the new Whiteboard is getting “Collaboration Cursors” to help remote participants more easily follow along; a new Laser Pointer and more features.
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Mary Jo Foley
for All About Microsoft
| June 17, 2021 — 13:00 GMT (14:00 BST)
| Topic: Collaboration