Microsoft Places transitions to space-based licensing in April 2026. The new Teams Shared Space license replaces the Places Enhanced service plan previously included in Teams Premium.
Microsoft keeps expanding Teams with new language translation capabilities, including live translated captions, Multilingual Speech Recognition, and the Interpreter Agent. Here’s how these features differ.
Attendees in Teams Town hall events can now raise their hands to request to speak, making live events more interactive.
Microsoft Teams now supports real-time polls in Town hall events for organizers with a Teams Premium license. The Polls app is the first Premium app for Town halls, allowing organizers to collect instant feedback and boost audience engagement during live events.
Teams Premium now includes a new Prevent screen capture feature. The feature blocks screenshots and recordings on Windows, Mac, and Android, limits video capture on iOS, and forces unsupported platforms into audio-only mode.
Teams Premium users can now personalize their meeting scheduling experience with personal meeting templates, making scheduling faster and more consistent.
I prepared a comparison between Intelligent Meeting Recap and Copilot Meeting Recap, as Microsoft primarily promotes the Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
Microsoft Bookings has been updated with a new Queues feature for improved workload management.
Meeting organizers have an updated control in Teams to prevent copying and forwarding of meeting chat, live captions, and transcripts. This feature enhances privacy by restricting sharing of insights from meetings.
Microsoft Teams is introducing a new feature for multilingual meetings. Participants can choose their spoken language and receive captions and transcripts in that language.
A new experience in Teams Premium will streamline management for admins, allowing them to monitor licenses, usage, and settings all in one place.
Promotions for Microsoft licenses expired at the end of December 2024. The promotion for Microsoft 365 Copilot has been extended.
Employees with a Teams Premium license will be able to use a Queues app for Teams Telephony in the future. The new service plan has been added to the license.