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AuthorTom Arbuthnot

A Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Master, Tom Arbuthnot is Founder and Principal at Empowering.Cloud as well as a Solutions Director at Pure IP. Tom stays up to date with industry developments and shares news and his opinions on his Tomtalks.blog, UC Today Microsoft Teams Podcast and email list. He is a regular speaker at events around the world.

New Satin codec coming to Microsoft Teams

Somewhat buried in a Microsoft Teams update blog, Microsoft announced their new in-house developed codec coming to Microsoft Teams in the coming months. A codec (the word is a  combination of coder and decoder) encodes and compresses data before it is sent and decodes received data. Microsoft says Satin, their new codec, will be able to deliver crystal clear wideband audio with as little as 7...

How to quickly get the Emoji keyboard in Windows 10

Blogging this just because I can never remember. I use Emoji’s a lot on phone but never remember how to access them quickly on Windows.
It’s really simple, you just press windows key and full stop at the same time,
You get a nice insert box with all the options.

6 New features coming to Microsoft Teams this year

As part of a blog post talking about the 3 year anniversary of Microsoft Teams and 44 million daily active users, 6 new features coming later this year were announced. Want to stay up to date on Microsoft Teams news, check out my every other Tuesday email update here. Real-time noise suppression on meetings Microsoft is using AI technology on the meeting to remove background noise like a vacuum...

Microsoft Teams now has 44 million DAU Daily Active Users

Undoubtedly partially fueled by the world impact of COVID-19, Microsoft is now reporting, as of March 18, 2020, 44 million daily active users (DAU) around the world. As of March 11, 2020, it was 32 Million Daily Active Users, that number has grown by 12 million in just over a week. That’s up from 20 Million DAU in October 2019 20 Teams customers have more than 100,000 employees actively...

Microsoft Teams is now available to the UK National Health Service for free

Tweet: Link Simon Eccles, Chief Clinical Information Officer for Health and Care. Deputy CEO NHSX, confirmed in a tweet that Microsoft Teams is being made available for free across the NHS. There are roughly 1.5 million people employed by the NHS across the UK. NHSX is a United Kingdom Government unit with responsibility for setting national policy and developing best practice for National Health...

Tom Talks Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 news and opinions