Microsoft is seemingly working on reducing meeting fatigue while making meetings more inclusive and engaging as it announced upgrading its chats and videoconferencing app Teams to accommodate 20, 000 participants.
Analysts have speculated that this new development, should it pulls through successfully, would displace Zoom and other competition.
Going further to explain the terms of use, however, Microsoft has noted that the upgrade will only see 1000 users actively engaged in meetings as participants while the 20, 000 offering inclusion will only see to the number viewing the session on the background.
Hence, for every 20, 000 capacity session, 1000 users will be active while 19, 000 will be passive. Like Zoom, Microsoft Teams will equally support Chat bubbles such that chats sent during a Teams meeting will surface on the screens of all meeting participants.
