Microsoft, Meta integrate their Teams and Workplace business offerings
Nov. 10, 2021 10:24 AM ETMeta Platforms, Inc. (META), MSFTBy: Jason Aycock, SA News Editor12 Comments
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- Microsoft (MSFT -0.8%) is putting its Teams into Meta Platforms' (FB -1%) Workplace product in a new integration deal between the two tech giants.
- Facebook Workplace - now being called Workplace by Meta - will soon integrate Microsoft Teams for live-streaming video into Workplace groups, and it will allow employees using Teams or Workplace to view and react to meetings in real time without having to switch between the apps.
- Correspondingly, that means Microsoft is integrating Meta's Workplace into Teams, where the app will be pinned to navigation and offer a homepage of Workplace content.
- It's an extension of a partnership where the companies already integrate Workplace into Microsoft's SharePoint, OneDrive, and Office 365 suite, as well as into Microsoft's Azure Active Directory.
- Meanwhile, Teams will also arrive on the Meta/Facebook Portal device in December, allowing people to use the video-chat hardware for video calling in Teams.
- The content integration goes live today, The Verge notes, while live-streaming Teams meetings into Workplace will happen in early 2022.
- Earlier this year, Microsoft acquired Peer5 in a bid to enhance live video streaming in Teams.