Microsoft expanded its product lineup with new Floor units and equipment final week. Amongst these companies, the Redmond large additionally launched a Microsoft Groups software known as Presenter+. The corporate is now planning so as to add some new accessibility options to its video calling app to draw extra customers. The Microsoft 365 roadmap notes that the corporate is engaged on a brand new characteristic which is able to enhance assist for signal language communication.
The Microsoft Teams ‘Signal Language View and always-on captions in conferences’ characteristic will roll out quickly in December and it will likely be out there for most of the people on platforms like Mac and desktop first.
To convey signal language in Groups conferences, the characteristic will assist customers to priortise two different customers’ movies. These movies keep seen even whereas content material is shared and set captions to remain on throughout all conferences. This characteristic could arrive on mobiles anytime quickly because of the limitations of the show measurement of those units.
Other than this, Microsoft Groups can also be anticipated to obtain another options and developments. The corporate plans so as to add emoji reactions to the Groups chat which would come with greater than 800 emojis.
In the meantime, a report by Axios earlier this month mentioned that expertise large Microsoft has laid off round 1,000 staff throughout a number of divisions. Now, Microsoft has confirmed the lay offs. In its up to date report, Reuters quotes a Microsoft spokesperson saying that “Like all corporations, we consider our enterprise priorities frequently and make structural changes accordingly. We’ll proceed to spend money on our enterprise and rent in key progress areas within the yr forward.”
The corporate had mentioned in July {that a} small variety of roles had been eradicated and that it might improve its headcount down the road. The layoffs affected lower than 1% of Microsoft’s complete workforce of round 221,000 as of June 30.
Microsoft has develop into the newest U.S. expertise firm to chop jobs or gradual hiring amid a world financial slowdown. A number of expertise corporations, together with Meta Platforms Inc , Twitter Inc, and Snap Inc, have minimize jobs and scaled again hiring in current months as world financial progress slows resulting from increased rates of interest, rising inflation and an vitality disaster in Europe.
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