{"id":448974,"date":"2022-06-15T09:53:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T07:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=448974"},"modified":"2022-06-15T09:57:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T07:57:13","slug":"microsoft-could-add-games-to-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/448974-microsoft-could-add-games-to-teams.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft could add games to Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is looking to add casual games to its Teams video conferencing service, The Verge <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/6\/14\/23167384\/microsoft-teams-games-solitaire-wordament-testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The addition \u2014 which Microsoft is currently testing \u2014 could see games like Solitaire, Connect 4, and Wordament added to Teams.<\/p>\n<p>The company is reportedly only testing games from its <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/microsoftcasualgames.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Casual Games offering<\/a><\/strong> for now.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Verge, it isn&#8217;t clear whether the feature will roll out publicly at all.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is also looking into adding virtual spaces to Teams \u2014 as part of its Metaverse ambitions \u2014 to allow colleagues to network and socialise with games on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>To compete with rivals Slack and Zoom, Microsoft has been working to improve its Teams product for businesses, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/425846-microsoft-launches-standalone-teams-subscription-with-extra-features-south-african-pricing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launching\u00a0Teams Essentials<\/a><\/strong> in December 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-za\/microsoft-teams\/compare-microsoft-teams-options?activetab=pivot:primaryr1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teams Essentials<\/a><\/strong> is aimed at small businesses that otherwise would have had to subscribe to one of the company&#8217;s Microsoft 365 packages to use the service.<\/p>\n<p>However, the standalone subscription allows small businesses to access the platform&#8217;s business offerings for as little as R61.70 per month.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a free version of Microsoft Teams available, but it limits meetings to 60 minutes and 100 participants.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/448954-google-says-its-artificial-intelligence-is-not-sentient.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google says its artificial intelligence is not sentient<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is testing casual games in its Teams video conferencing software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":448986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[79088,39614,74788,59665],"class_list":["post-448974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft-casual-games","tag-microsoft-teams","tag-teams-essentials","tag-video-conferencing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448974"}],"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\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448994,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448974\/revisions\/448994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}