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Microsoft Teams

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Summary

Microsoft Teams is a unified communication and collaboration platform that combines video conferencing, chat, file sharing, and application integration. It is designed to facilitate teamwork and productivity for businesses, educational institutions, and personal use. The platform supports various communication modes, including real-time meetings and asynchronous content sharing.

Features
7/16
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Must Have

4 of 5

Screen Recording

Camera Recording

Instant Shared Links

Basic Video Editing

Viewer Analytics

Other

3 of 11

Auto-Generated Transcripts

Mobile App Support

Enterprise Security & Compliance

Team Library

Timestamped Comments

Emoji Reactions

Slack Integration

Gmail Integration

Custom Branding

Password Protection

API Access

Pricing
Freemium
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Teams (free)

$0.00 custom
  • Send messages
  • Schedule calls for up to 60 minutes
  • Create communities for every interest

Microsoft Teams Essentials (Yearly)

$4.00 per user
  • 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 Teams Essentials (Monthly)

$4.80 per user
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  • 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 (Yearly)

$6.00 per user
  • 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 Basic (Monthly)

$7.20 per user
  • 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 (Yearly)

$12.50 per user
  • 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 365 Business Standard (Monthly)

$15.00 per user
  • 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 (Yearly)

$10.00 per user
  • AI-powered meetings and calls
  • Real-time translation of captions and transcripts
  • Microsoft Places integration
  • Host branded, large-scale events (webinars, town halls, immersive 3D experiences)
  • Manage call queues
  • Personalized customer experiences with Advanced Bookings
  • Increased confidentiality with more meeting options (who can record, end-to-end encryption)
  • Watermarking for shared content and video feeds
  • Automate meeting protection with sensitivity labels (with Microsoft 365 E5 subscription)
Rationale

Microsoft Teams is a comprehensive communication and collaboration platform that offers many features aligning with the concept of asynchronous video communication. It provides screen sharing and video conferencing capabilities, which are core to the 'screen-recording' and 'camera-recording' features. While it doesn't explicitly mention 'instant shared links' in the same way Loom does, its integration within the Microsoft ecosystem allows for quick sharing of meeting recordings. The platform also offers meeting recordings with transcripts, which aligns with 'video-transcripts'. Basic video editing is available through Clipchamp integration. Microsoft Teams is available on mobile devices, supporting 'mobile-app'. As an enterprise solution, it also offers 'security-compliance' features. However, it is primarily a synchronous communication tool with asynchronous capabilities, rather than a dedicated asynchronous video communication platform like Loom. Features like 'viewer-analytics', 'timestamped-comments', 'emoji-reactions', 'team-library', 'slack-integration', 'gmail-integration', 'custom-branding', 'password-protection', and 'api-access' are not explicitly highlighted or are less central to its core offering compared to Loom.

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