Microsoft Teams
microsoft.comSummary
Microsoft Teams is a comprehensive communication and collaboration platform that provides video conferencing, chat, and file sharing capabilities. It enables real-time meetings, screen sharing, and offers features like meeting recordings with transcripts and custom backgrounds to facilitate remote and hybrid work environments.
Features8/16
See allMust Have
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Screen Recording
Camera Recording
Basic Video Editing
Instant Shared Links
Viewer Analytics
Other
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Emoji Reactions
Auto-Generated Transcripts
Custom Branding
Password Protection
Enterprise Security & Compliance
Team Library
Timestamped Comments
Slack Integration
Gmail Integration
Mobile App Support
API Access
PricingTiered
See allMicrosoft Teams Essentials
- Chat, call, and video conferencing
- Real-time collaboration with file sharing, tasks, and polling
- Team meeting recordings with transcripts and live captions (English)
- 10 GB of cloud storage per user
- Data encryption for meetings, chats, calls, and files
- Anytime phone and web support
Microsoft 365 Business Basic
- Everything in Teams Essentials, plus:
- Identity and access management for up to 300 users
- Web and mobile versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook apps
- Custom business email (you@yourbusiness.com)
- 1 TB of cloud storage per user
- 10+ additional apps for your business needs (including Microsoft Bookings, Planner, and Forms)
- AI chat experience with web grounding, writing assistance, data analysis, and access to agents
- Automatic spam and malware filtering
Microsoft 365 Business Standard
- Everything in Business Basic, plus:
- Desktop, web, and mobile versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other apps
- Webinars with attendee registration and reporting
- Collaborative workspaces to co-create using Microsoft Loop
- Video editing and design tools with Microsoft Clipchamp
Microsoft Teams Premium (Add-on)
- AI-powered meetings and calls
- Flexible work with personalized experiences
- Advanced protection for sensitive meetings
- Live translation of captions and transcripts
- Places Finder for reserving rooms/desks
- Host branded, large-scale events
- Personalized meeting backgrounds
- Manage call queues
- Personalized customer experiences with Advanced Bookings
- Designate who can record meetings
- End-to-end encryption for online meetings
- Watermarking shared content and video feeds
- Automate meeting protection with sensitivity labels (with Microsoft 365 E5)
- Requires a Teams license. Queues app requires a Teams Phone license.
Rationale
Microsoft Teams offers video conferencing, which includes screen sharing and camera usage. While it's primarily a real-time communication platform, it does offer meeting recordings and transcripts, which aligns with some of the asynchronous video features. However, its core offering is not asynchronous video messaging like Loom, but rather live video conferencing. The 'instant shared links' feature as described for Loom (no upload wait) is not explicitly highlighted for Teams' recordings, which are typically stored within the Teams environment. Basic video editing is mentioned through Clipchamp integration in some plans. Features like emoji reactions, custom branding, password protection, and security compliance are also present.
