Microsoft Teams News MAY Update (2024)

Dive into our MAY 2024 Microsoft Teams Show! Host Kieran Devlin teams up with special guest Tom Arbuthnot from Empowering.Cloud to unpack recent updates and announcements. Joined by a panel of seasoned Teams experts, find out what’s new in the Teams ecosystem.

In this update, we talk through the most popular Teams news headlines with this month’s special guests:

• Graham Walsh, Product Specialist at Neat
• Kevin Kieller, Co-Founder and Lead Analyst, enableUC
• Josh Blalock, Chief Video Evangelist at Jabra
• Randy Chapman, Solutions Engineer in Video Collaboration, Logitech

Teams News

• Microsoft is reportedly developing its own AI platform to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT. What does this mean for Microsoft, its AI strategy and its OpenAI partnership?
• Microsoft Quarterly earnings - 20 million Teams Phone users, an increase on 17 million last July
• Over one million Microsoft Teams Rooms customers
• Teams Rooms on Windows 5.0 - Lots of new features for Teams Rooms!
• New Teams update now on Teams Rooms
• Zero Touch Deployment with Windows Autopilot
• Skype for Business Deprecation
• Meeting Chat shown by default in Gallery View for Teams Rooms on Windows
• Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Portal Remote Access - How does it work and could it be a gamechanger for IT admins?
• Restricted SharePoint search began rolling out in public preview for Copilot for Microsoft 365
• New Notebook for Copilot (on the web) - What exactly is it and how does it work?

Teams Events 

• European Collaboration Summit - May 14-16
• Microsoft Teams Devices Ask Me Anything - May 21-22
• Microsoft Build, Seattle and Online - May 21-23
• UCX Manchester - May 21-22
• Teams Fireside Chat with Juan Rivera - June 13
• Commsverse - June 26-27