Microsoft's new plan is to launch Surface Hub 2 in two phases, with the new conferencing system hardware coming in Q2 2019 and the new system software for it in 2020.
Microsoft is building more industry-specific and role-based features into Teams, as well as adding more meeting capabilities and AI-powered options to the anchor of its Office 365 suite.
Microsoft is making available starting today a preview version of its Teams group-chat service that is free and doesn't require a subscription to Office 365, plus other new collaboration tools.
Microsoft's Visual Studio Live Share, now in preview, allows Visual Studio and VS Code programmers to collaborate using their languages and frameworks of choice.
Microsoft plans to disclose specifics about its second-generation Surface Hub large-screen, multi-touch conferencing system in the first half of 2018.
Finally! Full guest access support will start rolling out to Microsoft Teams users over the next few weeks.
Microsoft is going to integrate Chalkup's classroom collaboration technology into Microsoft Teams for Education, as Chalkup shuts down in June.
Microsoft's long-standing Connect testing site is being phased out and replaced by a new 'Collaborate' testing portal.
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Microsoft isn't looking likely to deliver Microsoft Account Guest Access support for Teams until 2018, months later than it initially planned.