Microsoft introduced Whiteboard in 2017 and offered a way for people to use it from inside Teams in 2019. Share them with others and work together at the same time. Save documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online, in OneDrive. This led Microsoft to add features more quickly, said Nicole Herskowitz, general manager of the Microsoft Teams communication app. Collaborate for free with online versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. In March, the company said the number of Whiteboard's monthly active users was 12 times what it was in the previous year.ĭemand for Whiteboard has accelerated since the onset of the pandemic. Microsoft is also rolling out several new features to its Whiteboard app, which lets multiple people doodle, leave sticky notes and paste images on a virtual canvas, rather than relying on physical whiteboards and blackboards in offices.Īfter the virus appeared, Microsoft customers 'went from being interested in digital whiteboards to needing digital whiteboarding solutions yesterday,' Microsoft principal product manager Ian Mikutel said. And even if people aren't around to work together on a document such as a task list or a meeting agenda, they can later contribute to the document in a format called a Fluid Component in OneNote, Outlook and Teams. PowerPoint is getting a laser pointer feature so that presenters can highlight components during meetings, and everyone can see even if they're not in the conference room. The company pointed to new hardware for conference rooms that shows video feeds for all Teams call participants in a conference rooms.

Microsoft said it will update Teams so that people joining video calls in conference rooms can have a better view of their remote colleagues.

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