Microsoft Teams already accepts up to 300 participants in their video calls | Technology

Just deployed a new update for Microsoft Teams where the limit of participants in video calls is increased to 300 people, an increase that will allow you to be closer to your main competitor, Zoom.

Microsoft has been introducing a series of new features to your Teams video calling application During recent times, although it is a little behind compared to competitors like Zoom in certain characteristics. One of those that were in preparation and that has just been deployed allows the presence of up to 300 people in this virtual meetings, although they continue to be maintained the 49 people that appear on screen.

Now Mike Tholfsen Microsoft Teams announced in their Twitter account that up to 300 people can now be added to our video calls, which will undoubtedly make these virtual meetings more effective.

ROLLED OUT! 300 people can now attend a #MicrosoftTeams meeting – the limit has been increased ????

Details ????https://t.co/YcTVLaQL16#edtech #MIEExpert #MicrosoftEDU pic.twitter.com/ZAH74w2gbh

– Mike Tholfsen (@mtholfsen) June 27, 2020

Of course, it should be clarified that Microsoft has stated that the limit of participants for government teams (GCC, GCC High, DoD) is still 250 people, but that they will update their documentation page once this current limit of 250 is also increased to 300 planned.

In recent months, those of Redmond have included different innovations for Microsoft Teams such as the presence of personalized backgrounds, the ability to open chats in dedicated windows, the increase to 49 participants that appear on the screen during a video call and a new layout in much more grids. flexible.