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Microsoft Teams now has an even stronger integration with Microsoft Forms.

 

At Microsoft Inspire 2022 conference, Microsoft announced that Q&A is now available in Microsoft Teams meetings and webinars. Previously, Q&A was available as an app but now the Q&A functionality is built directly into Teams for a simple way to track and organize questions as they are submitted during meetings and webinars.
 

Microsoft Teams is adding a new feature in Together Mode to let meeting organizers assign seats to all participants.
 

Microsoft has added a new Teams integration that enables real-time language interpretation and translation.
 

Microsoft Teams will soon have more ways to collaborate during meetings, including marking up content in real-time.
 

For June and July, Microsoft has planned several enhancements for Teams meetings.
 

Microsoft has announced the release of a new Admin App for Microsoft Teams. The app provides a central hub that makes it easier for IT Pros to access settings and perform key management tasks across Microsoft 365 and Teams.
 

Organizers will soon be able to assign the co-organizer meeting role to up to 10 specific people they invite to their meeting.
 

Modern meeting and calling experiences are coming to Chrome and Edge browsers. This includes the dynamic view, control bar on the top of the screen, and the latest view modes.
 

Users can now seamlessly create and review e-signature approval requests directly in Teams removing the need to access the e-sign provider website.
 

Microsoft is using machine-learning models to improve further the audio functionality in Teams.
 

Microsoft Teams will soon allow users to create chats with themselves to easily take notes, write quick messages, or even store files or images.
 

In the modern workplace, effective collaboration with external partners is essential. External collaboration could range from adhoc chats with a vendor to more structured or long-term collaboration with suppliers or business partners.
 

In a new blog post, Microsoft provides data that its Teams app is now substantially faster compared to August 2021 thanks to improvements in the code.
 

Microsoft has announced the release of the May 2022 update for Teams.  The release notes highlight many key updates, but for this post I will focus on the new brightness and focus features.