Microsoft Is Testing Games For Microsoft Teams To Be Released This Year

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As remote and hybrid working becomes increasingly popular, tech companies are finding ways to outdo themselves with advanced features. Currently, Verge broke the news that Microsoft has commenced work on adding casual games to Microsoft Team. 

It was gathered that the company is currently experimenting with different games, including Solitaire, Connect 4, and Wordament. They are looking for a way of incorporating the games with Microsoft Teams.

The purpose of the games in Teams is Microsoft's way of enhancing users' virtual meeting experience. When it's finally completed, colleagues can play games against each other during meetings. No more staying in a meeting bored; just challenge your colleague to any game on Teams. It's going to be an exciting update once it drops. However, speaking of games, Halo or Forza would not make the Teams game list.

Since hybrid and remote work has come to stay, virtual meeting apps must also step up to the plate to enrich users' experience. However, information is still sketchy regarding the Microsoft Team-Game testing. The reason is that the testing is basically internal, and this means they might elect not to move the update to consumers or businesses. Well, it would only take a matter of months for the whole process to be complete.

Furthermore, Microsoft plans to create virtual spaces inside Teams where colleagues can network and socialize with games. The virtual spaces form part of Microsoft's broader metaverse plans. The launched Mesh, which happens to be a collaborative platform for virtual experiences. Mesh was to be fully brought into Teams this year. The detailed plans for the 3D avatars would make anyone participate in such immersive meetings.

Microsoft, since the pandemic, has been adding a series of features to Teams, and it looks like that will not end any time soon. You could remember Together Mode, which Microsoft launched during the pandemic. The goal of the Together Mode was to make meeting participants feel like being together during meetings. To make things more interesting, the company has added other remote-friendly features. They also enhanced Team for mobile-friendliness and upgraded many apps to compete better. For instance, they updated Outlook and PowerPoint to make them more hybrid and remote-friendly.

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