A new Microsoft Teams Premium package will be available in preview this December. The latest Teams Premium packaging follows the rebranding and price hike on its Teams Rooms packages. Teams Premium will provide “more personalised, intelligent and secure” meetings. Including one-to-one meetings, virtual appointments and webinars. Microsoft revealed the news, along with many other updates and releases, at its Microsoft Ignite 2022 annual conference. Nicole Herskowitz, Vice President of Microsoft Teams, said: "Virtual and hybrid meetings continue to take up the lion’s share of time spent at work.
"Now, more than ever, leaders need an integrated solution that combines all the advanced meeting capabilities, takes meeting culture to the next level, and allows them to do more with less.
"Today, I’m excited to announce Microsoft Teams Premium. Built on the familiar, all-in-one collaboration experience of Microsoft Teams, this new offering makes every meeting from one-on-ones to large meetings, to virtual appointments to webinars more personalized, intelligent, and secure.
"Unlike the disconnected experience and costs of multiple point products or add-ons, with Teams Premium you get everything you need for just one low price.
“Personalised” Premium Features
Meeting guides will enable users to select the appropriate meeting type. Guides can be managed and customised by IT, which allows employees to choose a guide, such as brainstorming meetings or initiating client calls, with pre-set options to speed up the process. Meeting experiences can be branded with personalised backgrounds and logos with customisable scenes for Together mode to incorporate businesses’ branding into virtual experiences.
“Intelligent” Premium Features
Intelligent recaps will provide users with customised highlights from meetings to see the most important information. This allows users who may not have taken part in a meeting to still be able to catch up. Compared by Microsoft to a virtual assistant, AI-generated tasks prevent action items from being missed by automatically assigning tasks from meetings. Intelligent playback auto-generates chapters to make it easy to search through and process Teams meeting recordings. Insights record key moments from meetings, such as users joining or exiting, a screen being shared, or a specific user mention. Intelligent search makes it easier to search through transcripts with suggested speakers personalised for the reader to make it easier to find the information they need. Caption translations will be available in 40 spoken languages in real-time using AI. This will help to create more inclusive meetings with fewer language barriers.
