

It was created during an internal hackathon at the company headquarters, and is currently led by Microsoft corporate vice president Brian MacDonald. Microsoft announced Teams at an event in New York, and launched the service worldwide on March 14, 2017. As of 2022, it has about 270 million monthly users. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Teams, and other software such as Zoom and Google Meet, gained much interest as many meetings moved to a virtual environment. Teams replaced other Microsoft-operated business messaging and collaboration platforms, including Skype for Business and Microsoft Classroom. Teams primarily competes with the similar service Slack, offering workspace chat and videoconferencing, file storage, and application integration. Microsoft Teams is a proprietary business communication platform developed by Microsoft, as part of the Microsoft 365 family of products. Name the window whatever you want, and make sure you select open as a window.English, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Then click on the three dots and choose more tools > create a shortcut.Ī box will appear asking to create a shortcut.

To do this, open up any browser and log in to Teams online with the exact login details I use for the desktop app.

What I mean by multiple instances is the ability to have more than one Teams window open at one time on my computer.

More info here. But for now, I like to run multiple instances of Teams to access another tenant while logged into my own. Shared Channels is a feature being released by Microsoft this year (2022) that will help solve that issue. If I am on a Teams call in my company’s Teams tenant, I have to end the call to access something from another tenant. If a customer has added me to a Team in their tenant, I have to switch to theirs and log in whenever I want to access or share something with them. One of my least favourite features of Microsoft Teams is the tenant switching.
