Welcome back to our weekly round-up of the most popular news stories coming from the unified comms space.
It was a busy week this week as Microsoft finally unveiled Windows 11, RingCentral launched a swath of hybrid meeting updates and Zoom saw its Zoom Phone solution hit one and a half million users.
Microsoft Integrates Teams with Windows 11
The tech titan unveiled the newest version of its operating system, Windows 11. As part of the latest iteration, the Microsoft Teams chat app has been integrated into the taskbar, though users who want the full app will have to go to the re-designed Microsoft Store to download it for free.
The addition of Teams to the OS signals the further decline of video pioneering platform Skype, which was bought by Microsoft for $8.5bn a decade ago. Microsoft is also ending its support for Skype for Business – Teams’ predecessor – next month.
Zoom Phones Hits 1.5m Seats
Zoom celebrated another milestone this week as it saw its Zoom Phone solution hit 1.5 million seats worldwide.
The collaboration platform provider launched the solution in 2019 to give SMBs an easy-to-use and deploy phone solution that also offers advanced capabilities required by enterprise organisations.
“Zoom Phone has been an astounding success,” said Elka Popova, VP of Connected Work Research at Frost & Sullivan.
“Thanks to its innovative pricing model and widespread availability in 46 countries and territories, it has quickly become an attractive option for many SMB and enterprise customers around the world”
RingCentral Reveals Updates to Rooms Offering
The cloud comms provider unveiled a host of updates to its RingCentral Rooms solution, including voice-activated controls, enabling users to start meetings without pushing a button, and the ability to control meetings from a mobile device.
Nat Natarajan, Executive Vice President of Products and Engineering at RingCentral, said:
