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Microsoft Announces New Teams Essentials App For Small Businesses

Microsoft now has a stand-alone Teams Essentials app for small businesses, this differs heavily from the Teams app available for the public. This app has a monthly subscription fee of $4 and doesn’t have the Office apps bundles of the Teams app.

Microsoft Announces New Teams Essentials App For Small Businesses
Teams Essentials

The small business app will be focusing more on simple chats, meetings and video calls. surprisingly, it’s just a dollar cheaper than Microsoft’s 365 Business Basic plan at $5.

Team Head at Microsoft 365 Jared Spataro says “It’s the first standalone offering of Microsoft Teams designed specifically with small businesses in mind,”

“It brings together features small businesses need to serve customers, including unlimited group video calls for up to 30 hours, group chat, file sharing and calendaring.”

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Another difference between the Teams Essentials app and the business basic plan lies in cloud storage and functionality. The new Teams app offers 10GB OneDrive storage while Business Basic has 1TB.

Simple Messaging

Also, the Essentials lack the premium of breakout rooms, real-time translation, meeting recording and transcripts functionality. Instead of using Zoom for video calls, Slack for group chats and Google’s Workspace for email and calendar. Microsoft is offering Teams Essential as a one-stop do it tool.

Microsoft is pushing hard to get some of the market shares of the remote work industry. Small businesses will be relying on communicating and working on the go with its affordable new app.

 

 

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