{"id":1202,"date":"2017-03-14T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2017-03-14T16:11:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T16:11:13","slug":"microsoft-teams-general-availability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/03\/microsoft-teams-general-availability\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Teams – General Availability"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft Teams reached General availability stage today, that\u2019s the point at which Microsoft declare a product is ready for production consumption, despite the fact that a lot of us have been using the product in some form in production for some time. This is a great achievement by the Teams product group<\/p>\n

For me the messaging experience across the Office 365 suite has often been a bit of a mixed bag, we have Outlook for e-mail, Skype4Business for 1 to 1 and business meetings, Groups for threaded conversations within a select group of people and Yammer for more open conversations (and the odd closed one!). I\u2019m often asked which should I be using for our collaboration and the answer always has to be, use what works for you and your organisation.<\/p>\n

One of the big problems with this is that we are welded to our inboxes. The large majority of people that I know spend a massive portion of their time in Outlook, managing tasks, conversations and with Office apps even content too. So breaking free from the inbox is a big ask. With the advent of Teams however, I think Microsoft could be on the verge of making this change sustainable, or at the very least reducing the dependence culture on the inbox!<\/p>\n

Some of the changes announced today will help reduce that dependency and possibly help to answer the question, which App should I use? Here\u2019s a summary of some of the changes announced today:-<\/p>\n