Microsoft says video calls in Teams grew by 1,000% in March amid COVID-19 lockdown

Amid ongoing coronavirus pandemic, almost all nations across world have imposed strict lockdown measures and levied social distancing policies. However, this has led to a sharp surge in online activities including video calls. On April 10, Tech giant Microsoft reportedly anunced video calls on its Teams applications have risen by 1,000 per cent in month of March.

Redmond based tech company also ded that as schools and companies have shut worldwide especially in US, educational us of its Teams productivity software has risen. In dition to that, proportion of meetings and calls including both audio and video have more than doubled from 20 per cent to a record 43 per cent over previous month.

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Jared Spataro, corporate vice president of Microsoft 365 while talking to media reporters revealed that use was interspersed throughout day. He ded that y usually saw spurts in a team of video conferencing. After which y saw people going offline followed by a "bunch of work in chat and documents" before getting back to video conferencing.

Educational use rises 

Along with video calls, Educational use of Teams have also seen a rise, 1,83,000 educational organizations, each of m with more than one school, in nearly 175 nations was w using to Microsoft Teams. Also, overall minutes spent in meetings by all Teams users hit 2.7 billion on March 31 which was triple ,900 million minutes on March 19.

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In ar news, a Microsoft engineer who designed an app to track rth Dakota State University football fans on ir annual trek to Texas for national championship has taken that concept and applied it to contact tracing for coronavirus. Care19 app is meant to help reduce spre of COVID-19 by retracing steps of people who test positive for virus, in order to find ors who may have h contact with sick person and also collect data to help with modelling, Gov. Doug Burgum said April 7 during his daily briefing.

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