First announced at Microsoft’s Ignite event in October, the upgraded Teams platform will be generally available from next month. Teams Premium, a new tier of Microsoft Teams first announced at the company’s Ignite event in October, is set to be generally available from February this year. Operating in public preview since December, the Premium version of the collaboration application offers users advanced security features, such as the ability to watermark meetings, turn on end-to-end encryption for meetings with more than 50 participants, and add sensitivity labels for virtual meetings that will prevent participants from copying and pasting meeting chats. Additionally, with Teams Premium, users will be able to turn on live translation for captions from 40 languages, while customers hosting webinars will have access to advanced capabilities such as registration waitlist and manual approval, separate virtual greenrooms for presenters and attendees before an event begins, and the option to better manage what attendees see — allowing them to only see shared content and participants you bring on-screen, for example. This new version of Teams will also use artificial intelligence to trigger recaps, to-do lists and suggest action items so that follow-ups are not missed. Teams Premium requires an add-on license over and above a Microsoft 365 subscription and is expected to be priced at $10 per user per month, although Microsoft has said it will not reveal the final price until the tool is made generally available. Writing in a blog post when Teams Premium was first announced, Nicole Herskowitz, vice president of Microsoft Teams, said that Microsoft’s new offering will help make every meeting more personalized, intelligent, and secure. “Virtual and hybrid meetings continue to take up the lion’s share of time spent at work,” she wrote. “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.” Related content news Microsoft begins to phase out ‘classic’ Teams Microsoft is encouraging Teams customers to move to the new, faster version of the collaboration app; the older version will be switched off next year. By Matthew Finnegan May 03, 2024 3 mins Microsoft Teams Collaboration Software Productivity Software news analysis Apple confirms it will open up the iPad in Europe this fall The latest efforts to comply with Europe’s Digital Markets Act mean developers can offer to side load apps to both iPhones and iPads in the EU. Apple has also taken steps to improve what it offers to smaller and non-commercial developers in the By Jonny Evans May 02, 2024 6 mins iPad Apple Mobile Apps news Udacity offers laid-off US workers free access to its courses for 30 days Sign-ups will be available over the next 30 days By Lucas Mearian May 02, 2024 4 mins Technology Industry IT Jobs IT Skills opinion Why you’ll soon have a digital clone of your own AI isn’t going to replace you at work. You will. By Mike Elgan May 02, 2024 7 mins Augmented Reality Generative AI Virtual Reality Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe