Microsoft Teams may have gone from 44 to 75 million users in two months, most professionals and individuals have chosen Zoom for their video calls. It must be said that despite its care taken over complete equipment for remote work, the Microsoft platform has not succeeded in following Zoom in increasing its ceiling for videoconferencing users. A slight increase, from 4 to 9 users in May, showed that Microsoft had taken into account the demand of its users. But the latter are more and more impatient.
In an article published by the Wall Street Journal, the platform confirmed that it was working on an increase to a maximum of 49 users, the same ceiling as that of Zoom. “The Microsoft team roadmap plans to increase the number of people who can be seen in a team video call to 49,” said a Microsoft spokesperson in an email to CRN, confirming the New York newspaper’s information.
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Impatient users face a confident Microsoft
One of the most popular topics in the past three months on the Microsoft Teams site forum is the need for users to be able to see the video feed of all participants in a meeting. In this discussion, a Microsoft Teams engineer allowed herself to comment on her personal feelings, indicating that the format “Current 3 × 3 is a start, but it is not enough”, with reference to the limit of 9 video shares.
Through the posts in this part of the forum, it is easy to find different stories from impatient users, often wondering if they should not turn to Zoom for their current needs. This is the case of a dance teacher, in an anonymous message spotted by our colleagues from ZDnet: “I mean, nine is good, but I run a dance school and I need all of my students to help them improve. Currently, this is not ideal. “
For its part, Microsoft Teams continues to be confident. The platform does not want to be compared to Zoom too often, although in these times of health crisis and increased mobility at work, the videoconferencing platform with 300 million users does indeed overshadow Microsoft .
For the CEO of LAN Infotech, a Microsoft partner, the Teams platform continues to demonstrate “True leadership […] by offering new features to users ». Hours after Zoom Releases Quarterly Balance Sheet by revealing its colossal benefits, Microsoft has announced an update in which Teams and Skype users will be able to communicate with each other using two messaging interoperability. A sign that Teams is getting stronger. But the most important thing remains to be done.
