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Microsoft Teams
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Microsoft Teams is a comprehensive communication and collaboration platform that provides features for online meetings, video conferencing, chat, and file sharing. It aims to streamline teamwork by bringing various tools and functionalities into a single environment, supporting both real-time interactions and some asynchronous content creation.
Feature Matches5/16
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Must Have
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Screen Recording
Camera Recording
Basic Video Editing
Instant Shared Links
Viewer Analytics
Other
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Auto-Generated Transcripts
Enterprise Security & Compliance
Team Library
Timestamped Comments
Emoji Reactions
Slack Integration
Gmail Integration
Mobile App Support
Custom Branding
Password Protection
API Access
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Microsoft Teams Essentials
$4.00 yearly
- 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
- Online meetings (calling and video)
- Maximum meeting duration: 30 hours
- Participant capacity: 300
- Scheduled meetings
- Guest access
- Unlimited chat messages, file attachments, and search
- Screen sharing
- Customized backgrounds
- Together mode
- Immersive spaces
- Meeting avatars
- Noise suppression
- Meeting recordings and transcripts
- Microsoft Whiteboard and collaborative annotations
- Breakout rooms
- Online survey, quiz, and poll creator with Microsoft Forms
- Apps to manage tasks (Microsoft To Do, Lists, Planner)
- Secure storage and real-time coauthoring and editing across devices with OneDrive
- User-friendly interface to help users find answers, people, and content with Microsoft Search
- Advanced grammar and style suggestions to write more clearly and concisely using Editor (Basic features)
- Advanced identity and access management with Microsoft Entra ID (Free version)
- Multifactor authentication for work accounts
- 1-300 employees
- Live captions in English only
Microsoft 365 Business Basic
$6.00 yearly
- 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
- Live captions in over 30 languages
- Data visualization tools with Visio for the web (Web only)
- Ability to create shareable project workspaces with Microsoft Loop
- Ad-free email and calendar with Outlook (Web and mobile only)
- Custom business email with Exchange (Kiosk)
- Appointment and staff scheduling with Microsoft Bookings and Shifts
- Team sites to share content, videos, and files using SharePoint and Microsoft Stream (Plan 1)
- Ability to create custom chatbots using Power Virtual Agents for Teams
- 1-300 employees
- Web and mobile apps only for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote
Microsoft 365 Business Standard
$12.50 yearly
- Everything in Business Basic, plus:
- Desktop, web, and mobile versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other apps (up to 5 PCs or Macs, 5 tablets, and 5 mobile devices)
- Webinars with attendee registration and reporting
- Collaborative workspaces to co-create using Microsoft Loop
- Video editing and design tools with Microsoft Clipchamp
- Advanced grammar and style suggestions to write more clearly and concisely using Editor
- 1-300 employees
Microsoft Teams Premium (Add-on)
$10.00 yearly
- AI-powered meetings and calls (real-time notes, action items, detailed summaries)
- Live translation of captions and transcripts
- Places Finder for reserving rooms, desks, or work areas
- Host branded, large-scale events (advanced webinars, town halls, immersive 3D experiences)
- Custom branding (logo, colors, AI personalized meeting background)
- Easily manage call queues (requires Teams Phone license)
- Create personalized customer experiences (Advanced Bookings, text message reminders, branded lobby rooms, scheduled queue management)
- Increase confidentiality with more meeting options (designate who can record, end-to-end encryption)
- Help deter leaks with watermarking (shared content and video feeds)
- Automate meeting protection with sensitivity labels (with Microsoft 365 E5 subscription)
- Microsoft Mesh immersive spaces and avatars (enhanced capabilities)
- Requires a Teams license
- Queues app requires a Teams Phone license
Rationale
Microsoft Teams is primarily a real-time communication and collaboration platform, which differs from Loom's core asynchronous video messaging focus. While Teams offers video conferencing and screen sharing, its emphasis is on live meetings and chat. It does have some features that overlap, such as screen recording, camera recording (within live meetings), basic video editing (via Clipchamp integration), and auto-generated transcripts for meeting recordings. However, the instant shared links for asynchronous video messages, viewer analytics, and timestamped comments, which are central to Loom's value proposition, are not explicitly highlighted or offered in the same manner by Teams. The video recording capabilities in Teams are more geared towards recording live meetings rather than creating quick, shareable asynchronous video messages.
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