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New Delhi: The Microsoft corporate team’s app faced a major outage Thursday morning, causing excitement among visitors to the corporate headquarters.
The company that confirmed the outage said it is investigating an outage where users were unable to access Microsoft Teams or use features of the app.
As of the second quarter of fiscal 2022, Microsoft Teams surpassed 270 million monthly active users in January. This compares to 250 million monthly active Teams users in July 2021.
Meanwhile, office workers who heavily depend on MS Teams for their daily work and coordination can think of other popular alternatives to MS Teams.
Top 5 alternative apps to Microsoft Team app
Google Meet
Google Meet, as the website describes, is a real-time meeting by Google. Share your video, desktop and presentations with teammates and clients from your browser.
zoom
Zoom Meetings is also another very popular video calling software program used by office workers and freelancers. It allows up to 100 simultaneous participants. The website describes it as a video platform that caters to all your communication needs, including meetings, chat, phone, webinars, and online events.
Skype
Skype, also owned by Microsoft, is one of the oldest VoIP-based video calling platforms that also supports instant messaging, file transfer, debit-based calling to landlines and cell phones.
Relaxed
Slack is another very popular workplace communication platform. Slack, which has users in over 150 countries worldwide, already has a significant following in India, which is one of the top 10 paid teams markets worldwide. The platform now has over 120 employees across four offices in Pune, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Gurugram.
Workplace by Meta
Meta’s Workplace is another platform that connects everyone in an organization with familiar features like groups, chat, and live video streaming.