Microsoft Teams can help keep your office clean during meetings by hiding all the messes. This feature is available in the Office 365 admin center and can be enabled for any meeting. Once enabled, all the files and documents that are open in the meeting will be hidden from view. This means that no one will be able to see any of the work that was done in the meeting, which will help to keep things clean and organized. ..
Tired of tidying up your office before every team chat? Microsoft’s Teams can now blur the background for you.
Teams is Microsoft’s alternative to Slack for team chat, and it includes a video conferencing service. Microsoft announced the blurring feature in a blog post yesterday (via The Next Web).
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The idea is that meetings should focus on the people attending, not the environments they happen to be in. Facial recognition is used to find you in the shot and the background is automatically blurred. The post includes this GIF of the tool in action:
Yes: that is Professor Robert Kelly, the expert on Korean politics whose kids famously interrupted an interview on the BBC. Here’s that clip, in case you somehow missed it back in 2017:
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This is a great way to show off a feature, so kudos to the marketing team behind this.
Teams also recently added a recording feature to teams, complete with transcripts. From a Microsoft blog post:
It’s great to see Microsoft stepping up their game, and I hope it drives other companies in the space to keep adding new features.
