{"id":202772,"date":"2017-03-15T07:55:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T05:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=202772"},"modified":"2017-03-15T07:57:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T05:57:01","slug":"microsoft-launches-teams-group-chat-for-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/202772-microsoft-launches-teams-group-chat-for-office.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft launches Teams group chat for Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has started rolling out its new group chat service &#8211; called\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/products.office.com\/en-us\/microsoft-teams\/group-chat-software\" target=\"_blank\">Teams<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;\u00a0to Office 365 business users.<\/p>\n<p>The platform is available to Office 365 business customers in 181 markets, including South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are adding a new tool to Office 365 with Microsoft Teams, a chat-based workspace designed to empower the art of teams,&#8221;\u00a0said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.<\/p>\n<p>Teams is designed to improve workplace communication through filtered chats, cloud security, and built-in Office applications such as PowerPoint, Word, and Skype for Business.<\/p>\n<p>The platform offers public and private chats, email integration, mobile audio calling, and video calling for Android devices.<\/p>\n<p>Since the announcement of Teams in November 2016, over 50,000 businesses have adopted the service.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said it plans to add deeper integration with Outlook and guest access capabilities to the platform in June.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Foh96zq24M0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/202236-microsoft-adds-onedrive-adverts-to-windows-10-file-explorer.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft adds OneDrive adverts to Windows 10 File Explorer<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has started rolling out its new group chat service to Office 365 business users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":202776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[41928,123,41926],"class_list":["post-202772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-group-chat-software","tag-microsoft","tag-teams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202784,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202772\/revisions\/202784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}