Microsoft Teams is a platform that was added in 2016 by Microsoft as a new tool to its Office 365 services.The company Microsoft Corporations which has its headquarters in Redmond, Washington, was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975.

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration platform that combines a workplace chat, video meetings, file storage and application integration, providing global, remote, and dispersed teams with the ability to work together and share information. A shared workspace software like this makes it much easier for the members of big teams to work together. By April 2020, Microsoft Teams had hit 75 million daily users and on a single day it logged 4.1 billion meeting minutes.

Teams allows the users which are part of a group, team or community to join through a specific URL sent to the members by the administrator of the team/group. It also offers a shared workspace for the applications in Microsoft Office including PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Planner, OneNote etc.; it gives you a view of your scheduled meetings, the subject, the timing and a list of those who will be attending; there are 24 bots available with different functions, to help increase productivity; fast, high-quality video calls and audio conferencing.

Microsoft Teams is highly-recommended for businesses too since it is really easy to use and it helps the work environment between the remote users within a large business.

This platform is free for any member and can be easily accessed through the website or downloaded on any device from the Apple Store and Google Play.