Microsoft Teams — The unified collaboration and video meetings hub for Microsoft 365 enterprises

Microsoft Teams connects enterprise organizations with video calling, chat channels, SharePoint file collaboration, and Copilot AI.

About Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams serves over 320 million monthly active users as the core communications hub of Microsoft 365. With deep native Office document co-authoring, enterprise voice calling, encrypted meeting recording, and Microsoft Copilot integration, it is the enterprise standard.

Key features

  • Seamless Microsoft 365 Integration — Edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files simultaneously inside chat.
  • Microsoft Copilot in Teams — Summarize meeting discussions in real time without taking manual notes.
  • Enterprise Phone & PSTN — Replace hardware desk phones with cloud call queues and operator console.

Pricing

Pricing model: Freemium.

  • Microsoft Teams Free — $0 — Up to 100 participants, 60-minute group meetings, 5GB cloud storage
  • Teams Essentials — $4 / month — Up to 300 participants, 30-hour meeting limits, 10GB storage/user
  • Microsoft 365 Business Basic — $6 / month — Teams + Exchange email, Web versions of Office, 1TB OneDrive storage

Pros

  • Deeply bundled with Microsoft 365 subscriptions at minimal incremental cost
  • Flawless real-time co-authoring of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files
  • Enterprise-grade compliance, retention, and DLP controls

Cons

  • Application can consume high RAM and CPU on older machines
  • Channel navigation can feel more rigid compared to Slack

Platforms

Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, Web

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