meeting tools

Microsoft Teams is finally bringing one of the most basic but consequential meeting safeguards directly to the moment users need it: a pre-join microphone and speaker test. Instead of entering a call and discovering that Windows selected the wrong headset, Bluetooth audio is routed elsewhere, or...

Microsoft Teams is quietly fixing one of its most persistent productivity annoyances: lost drafts. The newest wave of Teams updates consolidates unsent chat and channel messages into a single draft-management view, making it easier to pick up unfinished thoughts, edit them, send them, or discard...

Microsoft Teams is finally giving users the kind of small, practical control over meeting UI that power users have been asking for: an option to hide the meeting controls toolbar entirely, alongside a set of April 2026 improvements that include AI-driven video recaps, automatic spoken-language...