- Hi, I'm Jared Spataro
and I'm part of the Modern Work team here at Microsoft.
Thank you for joining us today.
As much of the world shifts to a hybrid work model,
it's clear that we're living through a pivotal moment
that amounts to a once-in-a-generation shift
in the way we work.
So naturally, as I talked to customers
about the big changes ahead,
I hear a lot of the same questions.
How do we fundamentally rewire our organizations
to embrace flexibility?
How can we ensure that every employee
has a seat at the table
whether they're working remotely or in the office?
And in general, how can we make the future of work
the best it can be for everyone?
Our team has spent a lot of time
thinking about these questions
and today, I'm excited to announce a new set of features
within Teams and Microsoft 365
designed to level the playing field for all employees,
no matter where they're working from,
remote or at the office.
Let's dive into a preview of today's news.
The hybrid workplace will require us all
to embrace flexibility and when, where and how people work.
Over the past 15 months,
virtual meetings bore the weight of our need to connect
and collaborate with one another in real time.
But as we move into this new chapter of work,
asynchronous collaboration
will become an increasingly important part
of how we work with others.
To support asynchronous collaboration,
I'm excited to announce that Fluid components
are coming to Teams and Outlook,
as well as Microsoft 365 applications
including Whiteboard and OneNote.
Today, you'll see how Fluid components
come in the form of checklists and tasks lists,
agendas, paragraphs and tables
that stay up-to-date as everyone contributes their piece.
We're also announcing new chat features
that further support asynchronous collaboration
including the ability to reply to a specific chat message,
keeping the context within the ongoing conversation.
Next, we'll take a look at enhancements to Teams Rooms
and new meeting experiences
that ensure everyone can be seen and heard
and fully participate
no matter where they're joining the meeting from.
Before the pandemic, being the remote person in a meeting
often meant it was difficult to break into the conversation
and the camera views of people in the room
might have you feeling like you were up in the corner
peering in on where the real action was happening.
Right now, I'm standing in a room that represents our vision
for how the meeting room should evolve.
Many of the features we'll show you today
have been developed on the principle
that effective hybrid meetings
start by designing for people who aren't in the room.
We're announcing new video
and content layouts in Teams Rooms
that give remote participants
a greater sense of physical presence of the meeting room
so that they can more easily sleep be seen and heard.
New devices from partners like Jabra,
Logitech, Neat, and Poly
provide a clear view of those in the room
to the remote participants
and the next generation of Teams experiences on Surface Hub
brings more features from desktop to the meeting room.
The new Whiteboard and new PowerPoint Live features
include laser pointer, inking,
annotations and slide translate
and help create an inclusive shared space for collaboration
and contributions from everyone in the meeting,
whether they're joining from the conference room
or from elsewhere.
And we're bringing a new set of meeting features
to the Team's mobile app,
making it easier to present and feel connected
even when you're on the go.
Our Work Trend Index research
has shown us that meeting fatigue is very real.
And at this point, for me at least,
sometimes the best meeting of the day
is just the one I can skip entirely
and still stay in the know.
We're introducing Fluid components in meeting recap,
which keeps the agenda, notes and tasks
along with the recording, transcript,
and the shared meeting content all in one place,
so everyone can stay organized and informed
even when you don't attend.
In the interest of helping people protect their time,
we're also introducing Focus mode
to help you make progress
on important tasks without interruption
and Quiet time which helps you set boundaries
around your personal time by silencing notifications
during the hours you choose.
And finally, a new integration from Headspace
is coming this month to Microsoft Viva Insights
and will be accessible in Teams,
offering a curated set of guided meditations
and mindfulness exercises
designed to support your wellbeing.
Hybrid work isn't just a new way to work,
it's literally the rewiring of how things get done
and the biggest shift in work in a generation.
And I believe we have the chance
to make it a win-win for everyone,
if we seize the opportunity,
take advantage of new innovations
and embrace a growth mindset.
That's how we'll create a better world of work for everyone.
So thank you for tuning in.
Now over to Marissa
to show you these new features in action.
- Thanks Jared, hi, I'm Marissa Salazar,
Microsoft Teams Senior Product Marketing Manager
here at Microsoft.
I'm going to spend some time
walking you through our innovations
that will enable everyone to stay in sync wherever
and whenever they choose to work,
to participate on equal footing,
whether they're in the room or remote
and to protect their time
and prioritize their health and wellbeing.
We know the hybrid workplace will require flexibility
in when, where and how people work.
While meetings will remain an important way
for teams to come together,
we're introducing new features
that support asynchronous collaboration
so everyone could stay up-to-date
and keep work moving forward in between meetings
or even instead of them.
Fluid components are coming to Teams chat
allowing chat messages to be co-authored and edited in line.
You can easily co-create content with your group,
send a bulleted list, create a table,
or share a task list.
Your team can revise, add an update content
right in the chat message.
Knowing the latest will persist right within the message.
And include other people
by copying the components to other chat threads
with all edits remaining in sync,
providing more transparency and alignment across teams,
clear documentation and less upfront planning.
If you need to respond to an older message in a chat thread,
you can reply to that message by clicking reply
and having the original message
quoted in your reply text box
so everyone in the chat has the necessary context.
You'll be able to pin a message.
Chat threads can move quickly
making it hard to find important messages.
With pinning, you can drive awareness
and provide your chat members
with quick access to critical content.
This will help your team stay in sync on the key topics
while staying in the context of the conversation.
You can also copy and paste Fluid components
to your Outlook Calendar board
this free-form, ever expanding board view
with an Outlook on the web,
lets you customize your view
to keep essential items at your fingertips,
enabling you to quickly see, organize and manage your time,
task list, files links, Fluid components and more.
And you can work confidently,
knowing wherever you transfer a Fluid component,
it's being synced and updated
to include your team's contributions.
Enabling asynchronous work
allows people to collaborate whenever they need
without feeling out of the loop.
In the hybrid world of work,
People wanna know that they can work from anywhere
without missing out
on important conversations and decisions.
Enhancements to Microsoft Teams Rooms
and the Teams meeting experience,
help ensure everyone can be seen, heard
and participate fully no matter your location,
whether that's at the office, at home,
at a coffee shop or on the go.
With Microsoft teams,
remote participants are no longer at a disadvantage
to those in the room
and today, we're introducing new tools
for you to flexibly choose where you want to work.
Now, when setting up a meeting,
you can create a collaborative agenda with Fluid components,
so everyone could contribute ahead of the meeting.
The agenda will be visible within the meeting experience,
so everyone stays on track.
Alongside the agenda,
everyone in the meeting can collaborate on notes
and assigned tasks.
These Fluid components ensure meeting attendees
have a clear view of what was covered
and how we need to proceed forward.
For a richer note taking experience,
you can open the notes in OneNote
and collaborate in real time.
This means there's no need for a designated note-taker
assigned to a meeting anymore.
And now let's take a look at new enhancements
to Microsoft Teams Rooms.
Over the course of this year,
we will be rolling out new experiences
in Microsoft Teams Rooms
designed to ensure all meeting participants
are on equal footing
so you can be seen, heard, and fully participate
whether you're in the room or joining remotely.
The new meeting layout in Teams Rooms
makes interactions feel more natural
and gives people in the room a greater sense of connection
to remote participants.
By moving the video gallery to the bottom of the screen,
in-room participants
can see their remote colleagues face to face.
To help everyone stay more engaged,
meeting content is centered on the screen,
surrounded by contextual meeting information
like the agenda tasks and notes
which because they're Fluid components
can be updated in real time.
In addition, the meeting chat is now visible to everyone,
providing another way for participants
to share ideas and comments during the meeting.
This new meeting layout will be available to all Teams Rooms
across both single and dual display configurations.
Soon Teams Rooms with two displays
will maximize screen real estate
and split the video gallery across multiple displays
when content isn't being shared.
With more screen space,
video of remote participants will be larger
and can bring more attention to people
who aren't in the room.
We're also bringing popular features
from the personal meeting experience into Teams Rooms,
including the ability to pin
or a spotlight video streams
of specific remote attendees and live reactions
so people in the meeting room can easily view
and react to non-verbal sentiments
shared by remote participants.
And when using the classic video grid layout,
chat bubbles alert in room participants to conversation
happening alongside the meeting,
so nothing gets missed and all voices are heard.
New devices for Teams Rooms from our hardware partners
help ensure more engaging
and inclusive meetings for all participants,
whether in the room or remote.
In the past, if multiple people
were in the same meeting room, transcription services
wouldn't be able to differentiate between speakers.
The intelligent speaker from Yealink or EPOS
uses Microsoft's voice recognition technology in Teams
to attribute remarks to the speaker
in the meeting transcript,
so remote participants can follow along with who's speaking
and everyone can see a record of the conversation
after the meeting.
With speaker attributed meeting transcription,
you can focus on contributing to the conversation
instead of taking notes.
It's also helpful for people who missed the meeting
and need to review what was discussed.
New advanced camera capabilities from our hardware partners
like Neat, Logitech, Poly and Jabra
are designed to optimize the view of the room
for remote participants
allowing every person in the room to be seen more clearly.
We're thrilled to announce the newest partner
to join the Teams device family, Neat.
Neat Symmetry enables hybrid teams
to see everyone in the room up close.
It combines advanced AI with a high resolution sensor
to focus in and individually frame each in-room participant,
following them as if they have their own camera person.
With Neat Symmetry and Teams Rooms,
remote participants can feel like they're in the room
without actually being there.
Later this year, Teams experiences
will be available across Neat's full device portfolio.
RightSight2 for Logitech Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini
uses two cameras and active speaker tracking
to automatically zoom in on the person talking
while providing a second panoramic picture
of the meeting room
so you can continue to see everyone together.
The new Poly Studio E70 is an intelligent camera
that also detects who's actively speaking
and zooms in for a closer view.
Transitions are seamless
and a future segmented view will display multiple people
in their own individual frames.
Jabra PanaCast 50 provides an immersive
180-degree view of the room so everyone can be seen
and also uses Teams' intelligent capture feature
to capture the in-room whiteboard
so remote participants can view it clearly.
For a premium collaborative meeting experience,
the new Teams Rooms on Surface Hub
allows for boundaryless collaboration
on a device purpose-built for teams to meet
and co-create wherever they work.
The next generation of Teams experiences on Surface Hub
brings more of your favorite meetings features
from desktop to the meeting room,
like Together Mode scenes
which allow for richer experiences and deeper collaboration.
On Surface Hub, you can also confidently present
using features like PowerPoint Live in Teams,
letting you see notes, slides
and your audience all in one view.
Using the new Microsoft Whiteboard experience
on Surface Hub, everyone can draw
and ink on the same digital canvas
no matter where they are.
And as features continue to be enhanced on Whiteboard,
those updates will become available to Surface Hub.
Now, let's take a look at the meeting enhancements
for remote participants.
One of the biggest challenges for remote work
has been visual collaboration.
In a hybrid meeting, it used to be challenging to brainstorm
and solve problems together
compared to ideating on a physical whiteboard
in the same room.
The new whiteboard experience in Teams
is a virtual-first keyboard friendly experience
that lets all meeting attendees brainstorm
and visually collaborate
on the same digital canvas from anywhere
and whiteboards integration with Microsoft Fluid components
lets you create new components like tables
or bring existing content into a whiteboard to coauthor.
You can even copy components from Whiteboard to other places
like a Teams chat to continue working after the meeting.
To make visual collaborations easier and more structured,
we have created a wide array of templates,
so you can start ideating faster and more effectively.
In Whiteboard's expansive canvas,
you can easily follow along with contributors
and align on areas to collaborate
and the new Whiteboard experience
will be available across all devices.
After ideation and when your content is ready to share,
PowerPoint Live on Teams lets you deliver
the most impactful presentations from wherever you are.
With a new inking experience in PowerPoint Live,
you can annotate your PowerPoint as you present
and the laser pointer feature makes it even easier
to visually call attention to key points.
With slide translate, you can reach a diverse
and global audience in an inclusive and engaging way.
Attendees can select their native language
and automatically have slides translated for them
without changing the view for other attendees.
Creating a positive productive hybrid work environment
is not just about bridging the gap
between remote and in room attendees.
With Together mode,
you can meet in a consistent virtual environment
that builds comradery while reducing meetings.
And now you can create custom Together mode scenes
using Scene Studio without any coding experience.
IT admins can also customize branded scenes
for their organizations to create unity and familiarity.
As travel returns and we're all able to get out more,
Teams meetings will bring the same rich capabilities
you see on desktop to mobile.
With custom background, you won't have to worry
about where you're joining the meeting from.
Dynamic view lets screen automatically adapt
to show attendees and content.
And you can confidently present
with PowerPoint Live in mobile just as you would on desktop.
When sharing, you'll be able to see
live reactions from other attendees and share your own.
As the nature of work continues to evolve,
it's clear that meeting fatigue is real
and protecting our time and wellbeing is essential.
We believe that everyone should feel empowered
to prioritize what's important
and flexibly choose how and when they want to collaborate.
And while meetings will continue to be an important way
for teams to come together,
sometimes the best meeting
is the one you didn't have to attend.
To ensure people can work effectively whenever they need to,
we've made the meeting recap more helpful and intuitive.
As a part of the meeting recap,
the agenda, notes and tasks are automatically shared
within the context of the meeting,
along with the recording, transcript and the shared content.
If you join a meeting after it starts
or if you're examining content after the meeting's over,
it's now easy to catch up on the agenda,
view the synthesized notes
and full transcription with everything in one place.
And because the notes, tasks
and action items are Fluid components,
you can continue to collaborate
and update your work in the app you choose;
across Teams, Outlook for the web, or OneNote.
Now, whether you were in the meeting or not,
you can stay in the know, focus on what's important,
and collaborate effectively,
allowing you to reclaim your time
from back-to-back meetings.
We're also introducing new personal wellbeing experiences
as a part of Microsoft Viva,
our employee experience platform
to empower people to stay productive
while providing opportunities to disconnect and recharge.
To decrease stress from back-to-back meetings
and help people focus,
we're bringing a curated set of guided meditations
and mindfulness exercises from Headspace
into the Viva Insights app in Teams.
- [Narrator] Hi, and welcome to Headspace
on listening to others.
- These exercises we'll help you start your day grounded,
relax your mind before a big presentation,
or disconnect from work in the evening.
Back-to-back meetings also lead to a rise
in after-hours work to finish your tasks.
Viva Insights now enables you
to schedule daily focus time to work uninterrupted.
Later this year, we will introduce a new focus mode
in the Viva Insights app,
featuring focus music from Headspace
and the ability to make progress on important tasks
in 25-minute intervals with regularly scheduled breaks.
To protect your personal time, later this year,
Viva Insights will offer the ability to set quiet time
to silence after-hours multiple notifications
from Teams and Outlook.
You'll also receive personalized insights
on how many days you successfully had without meetings,
emails and chats outside of your working hours.
And with new controls in Microsoft Endpoint Manager,
IT administrators can also create org-level policies
to mute after-hours notifications.
With Teams asynchronous tools and Viva Insights,
hold fewer meetings, balanced productivity and wellbeing
and create better boundaries between work and life.
- Hybrid work represents the biggest shift
to how we work in our generation
and I believe that we have the opportunity
to create a new world of work
that can be better for everyone.
When business leaders listen to their employees
and what they want and make thoughtful conscious decisions
about how they move forward and embrace flexibility,
then we can pull forward the best of both worlds,
in-office and remote.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
We know it's a busy season
and we sincerely appreciate you making the time.