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DuringMicrosoft ’s Ignite 2023event , the company ’s yearly IT pro group discussion , a pot of interesting update were revealed for Teams , its slack water - like quislingism and messaging service of process .
Among the dozen of updates here , some of the highlights are the initial rollout of vocalization isolation , an AI - drive dissonance step-down feature that can not just reduce repetitive noise in the background but also other people ’s voices , and a raw “ decorate your background ” feature that can expect at the room you are working from and then raise it by cleaning up welter or supply plants to the wall .
“ embellish your background ” will surely slip the headlines . Users , it seems , will be able to choose different types of enhancements to their piece of work environs , but the veridical hope here is that you ’ll never have to strip your family office again ( until somebody invites you to a Google Meet or Slack call , of line ) .
The voice isolation feature is rolling out now and will be generally available in early 2024 , while “ decorate your background ” will be available early next year in Teams Premium .
Meanwhile , Microsoft also announced that immersive spaces in Teams , a remnant of the metaverse ballyhoo of 2021 , will be broadly speaking usable in January , appropriate users to create incarnation to wait on these meetings within various 3D environs and run interactive games , roast virtual marshmallow and throw beanbags ( yes , those are matter Microsoft specifically refer in its promulgation ) .
Microsoft Mesh , its tool for make these immersive spaces , will also be generally usable in January .
You ’ll hopefully never have to use any of this .
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Some of the more useful young feature , though , are customizable emoji reaction , the power to forward confab , create a radical chat profile picture and add a individual 2d phone turn for a select set of callers . There are also raw keyboard shortcuts ( Alt+Shift+D to set your status to Do Not Disturb , for example ) and some new putz for IT to manage team more effectively .
in the beginning this year , Microsoft set in motion a re - architected Teams app for Windows and Mac . Now , the web experience on Edge and Chrome will attain some of these advantages , too , with Microsoft promising to double the performance while using 50 % less computer memory .
This story was originally bring out at 8 am PT on Nov. 15 and updated at 3:10pm PT .
