If you have multiple Microsoft Teams accounts, but you hate swapping between them for meetings, you’re in luck. Microsoft is making it very easy to swap between your accounts on the fly.
What Microsoft Has Planned for Microsoft Teams
Confirmation of this new feature came to us via the Microsoft 365 Roadmap. If you’ve never heard it before, it’s a highly resourceful place for spotting what Microsoft has planned for its productivity services.
For instance, the Roadmap previously tipped us off about Microsoft’s plans to introduce 1,000-wide interactive meetings to Microsoft Teams. It’s always worth taking a look through the Roadmap to see what Microsoft is working on.
In this case, we can see the aforementioned featured filed away under Feature ID 68845:
Microsoft Teams: Additional settings for multiple Accounts and Organizations. Teams users will be able to add additional accounts, change their profile picture, and switch between accounts and orgs through Settings.
Microsoft plans to release the feature in December 2020, so while it’s not live at the time of writing, there’s not long to wait.
How Microsoft is Helping the World of Remote Productivity
As we’ve seen multiple times before, Microsoft is pushing to become a dominant force in the remote work scene. You’ve likely seen the effects that COVID-19 has had on the world economy, and perhaps you, too, are now working from home more often.
Microsoft sees this shift in the workforce as an opportunity. The company owns plenty of cloud-based services and developers productivity-oriented devices; as such, Microsoft is doubling down on the remote work scene.
So far, Microsoft’s plan is working out for the company. Recently, the company revealed its finances for the first quarter of the 2021 financial year. The reports showed that Microsoft is making huge profits with its COVID-19 strategies, earning more money than in the same time period in 2019.
As such, Microsoft is paying a lot of attention to Teams after COVID-19 forced employees to begin working from home. With this little change, Microsoft is further preparing for a world that works and communicates remotely, perhaps long after the COVID-19 pandemic has blown over.
Preparing for a World of Remote Work
With the work-from-home scene not likely to go away anytime soon, Microsoft is putting extra effort into making its remote work tools a lot better. It’s unlikely that Microsoft is done with enhancing Teams, so we’ll have to wait and see what else they’ll do.
Microsoft isn’t just focusing on software in a pandemic-struck world. The company recently released the cheapest Surface laptop ever to appeal to home workers.
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