Windows 365 For Dummies

Chapter 10

Using Microsoft Teams to Stay Connected

IN THIS CHAPTER

Gaining a general understanding of Teams

Getting familiar with basic Teams terminology

Learning how chats, channels, and teams work

Digging into tabs and files

First, Office went to the cloud with the introduction of Office 365. Then the Office suite of apps grew with the addition of SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, and so on. Windows 365 completes the seamless cloud experience. As previously mentioned, you need to have a Microsoft 365 account in order to use Windows 365. The good news is that Microsoft Teams is already preinstalled with your cloud PC so you don’t have to take the extra steps of installing it.

We admit that when we first heard about Microsoft Teams, we were not very impressed. The market was already filled with chat programs. Microsoft even purchased the most popular one, Skype! So why did Microsoft decide to create redundant software? Well, that was years ago. Since then, our opinion has undergone a radical transformation. Now we understand the vision Microsoft had for Teams, we have seen what it has ...