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- technews@radiation.party
Microsoft has integrated Microsoft Teams with the Xbox Game Bar, allowing users to stream their gameplay in real-time to friends over Teams video calls. Up to 20 people can join a call to watch and chat together while gaming. The viewer can see both the game and overlaid video of friends. However, streaming performance is currently limited to 30fps or less, which is not ideal for viewing high-fidelity PC games. Viewers also cannot yet see overlaid video during gameplay. While this new feature aims to compete with Discord for social gaming, the integration still needs improvements to provide a comparable experience. Overall, Microsoft is trying to grow Teams communities and social features to rival other platforms like Discord.
Wtf who is this for
There’s Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Teams is for consumers and is the one preinstalled in Windows 11
Then there’s Microsoft Teams. It’s for business. Is completely incompatible with the other Microsoft Teams and is a separate app.
The icon is also “different”. One has the Microsoft teams logo in white on a purple background, the other has the Microsoft teams logo in purple on a white background (forgot which and which)
I really don’t understand why they don’t use the Skype branding for the consumer version. They forgot how many billions they paid for that?
You also have Teams for Linux which is compatible with Microsoft Teams (Work)but no longer supported. It however isn’t compatible with Microsoft Teams (Personal) but if you try to use Microsoft Teams on Linux for personal use, it tells you to install the now non-existant Teams for Linux that only works with Microsoft Teams (Work).
There’s also two different versions of logging out in Teams for Linux, Logout and Log Out. Both of which log you out but only one lets you log in as a different user.
Don’t get me started with the Microsoft Teams PWA that is now the “way to use Teams on Linux” but isn’t the Teams PWA that installs if you try the normal way…
All hail Microsoft Teams! At least I can stream the games I’m playing to my work meetings so people know I’m skiving.
They’ve totally ruined any brand power that Skype once had by now, so in this case, I get it.
That happened in a past quarter. Money spent in past quarters doesn’t matter. The next fiscal quarter is what matters.
They do the same thing with PowerBI. THe cloud version is one icon, the PowerBI for Reports Server (aka locally hosted) is for the on-prem version. Pretty annoying.
I work with Teams (Business version) daily. Have never even seen the other one.