The “sizzle” in this week’s Microsoft Ignite announcements came from the set of new features the company is adding to Teams, and particularly to the video component of the team collaboration platform. As big players like Microsoft, Zoom, Cisco, Google, and others fight it out in the pandemic-driven remote work market, they want to give end users more to love about their application. And it’s not just new ways to display talking heads on the screen; this week’s Teams upgrades included enhancements to meeting transcriptions, and templates aimed at making project management easier on Teams.
