After using Microsoft Teams triggers last year, the video conferencing app now has 145 million daily active users. In times of pandemic and social isolation, where virtual meetings have become practically mandatory for many jobs and studies, Bill Gates' company seems to have made an effort to show itself as the ideal alternative for many people and companies.

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Communicated enthusiastically on Twitter by Jeff Teper, Microsoft's corporate vice president, the milestone represents a significant increase, based on October 2020. At the time, the app was already being accessed by 115 million people per day. By pointing to the current 145 million, Microsoft Teams is seeing growth of 30 million daily users in six months, or five million new users per month.

To give you an idea of ​​how much the app's usage has increased, at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, there were around 32 million users. In April of the same year, the reported number of daily active users of Microsoft Teams jumped to 75 million. In other words, this number almost doubled in one year.

Teams is part of Microsoft Azure and is also part of the commercial office products and cloud services revenue category. The app started as a group chat platform, but Microsoft has transformed it into an almost operating system-like product over time, expanding and optimizing its resources.

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One example of the company's dedication to its productivity tool is the Together Fashion, recently expanded to Skype as well. The segmentation technology developed by Microsoft's artificial intelligence department brings everyone in a conversation together virtually. In other words, people appear on the screen of their devices as if they were in the same physical environment, such as a meeting room or classroom.

Still in the field of Microsoft Teams developments, which certainly helped to reach the milestone of 145 million daily users, there is the improvement for Android users of the app. With the update announced by the developers earlier this month, there have been interesting improvements to the app's video calling rooms. Among them, the option to blur the user's image background, advanced calendars, touch commands and integration with the Office 365 package.

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