M365 Perspective

Custom backgrounds land for Teams Rooms on Android in update 1449, display scaling arrives on Windows rooms, digital signage with Appspace and XOGO is due in September, and the Teams Rooms, Phone and Copilot Partner Technical Bootcamp videos are now on demand.

Teams Premium passes 3 million seats (up nearly 400% YoY) as Copilot dominates Microsoft's FY24 Q4 earnings call with 42 mentions. Plus the Queues app slips, custom emojis arrive on by default, and Teams Phone gains Private Line and explicit recording consent.

Android Teams device certification now runs OS release date plus five years, pushing Android 12 to August 2027, while CNS retirement slips to 30 September 2024. Plus Copilot Dashboard opens up to Copilot for Microsoft 365 licences, Office 365 connectors retire, and thoughts on CrowdStrike.

July's Teams round-up: speaker recognition lands on all Teams Rooms on Windows, the EU's Statement of Objections over Teams bundling, the July 31 legacy chat infrastructure cut-off for Android Rooms and Teams Phone devices, classic Teams 1.0 end of support, and Dynamics 365 Contact Center GA at…

Tom's June round-up: digital signage lands on Teams Rooms on Windows (Pro) in August, Skype for Business Server Subscription Edition is slated for Q3 CY2025, plus intelligent call recap, transcription consent policies, and Commsverse interviews with Neat, Logitech, Jabra, Ribbon and more.

Tom's monthly round-up: Dynamics 365 Contact Center arrives as standalone CCaaS on 1 July, Microsoft Places hits public preview, and Build brings Team Copilot and custom Copilot agents. Plus Teams Live Events gets a stay of execution, Logi MeetUp 2, Poly G62 and Crestron Flex Pods.

Microsoft's quarterly earnings revealed 20 million Teams Phone users, up nearly 30% year-over-year, and over 1 million Teams Rooms — double the 500,000 reported in FY23 Q2.