Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a workplace chat and videoconferencing service. It was created during an internal hackathon at the company headquarters. Teams is based on a number of Microsoft-specific protocols. It is part of the Microsoft 365 family of products.

About Microsoft Teams in brief

Summary Microsoft TeamsMicrosoft Teams is a proprietary business communication platform developed by Microsoft, as part of the Microsoft 365 family of products. Teams primarily competes with the similar service Slack, offering workspace chat and videoconferencing, file storage, and application integration. Microsoft announced Teams at an event in New York, and launched the service worldwide on March 14, 2017. It was created during an internal hackathon at the company headquarters, and is currently led by Microsoft corporate vice president Brian MacDonald.

Microsoft Teams is based on a number of Microsoft-specific protocols. Video conferences are realized over the protocol MNP24, known from the Skype consumer version. The protocol MS-SIP from Skype for Business is not used any more to connect Teams clients.