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Microsoft Teams Basics

Microsoft Teams is a collaborative tool released by Microsoft in 2017 that is transforming the way people work and communicate with each other. With an ongoing global pandemic, Microsoft Teams usage has grown exponentially, reaching more than 250 million active users as of July 2021.

Workers spend part of their day switching between platforms to chat with their peers, accessing project documentation, scheduling meetings, sharing files, and more. All these tasks can be centralized in a single workspace, and that workspace is Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft has a lot of experience with communication and collaborative tools, and Microsoft Teams is an evolution of their previous solutions. Teams inherits all the experience and ...

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