Hina Javed Malik
The AI-powered art-making tool Designer from Microsoft is coming to the free version of Teams.
Microsoft Teams users can now create presentations, posters, digital postcards, and other designs for sharing on social media and other channels by tapping Designer, an app that is similar to Canva. The designer uses OpenAI‘s text-to-image AI, DALL-E 2, to generate designs from text prompts or uploaded images, complete with text boxes and drop-down options for further personalization.
The designer was first made public in October of last year. It is also accessible through the sidebar in Microsoft Edge and the web. In April, Microsoft introduced caption generation and animated visuals, and it promised additional features, such as advanced editing capabilities, would follow.
Microsoft’s ultimate objective is to make money from subscriptions to Microsoft 365 Personal and Family, but the company hasn’t said where pricing might end up. However, it has been stated that some of the tool’s features will remain free. Which functionality is it is unknown?
Different Group refreshes reported today have emphatically less to do with artificial intelligence.
Users of Microsoft’s free group messaging app GroupMe can now start a call within any new or existing group chat to create Teams calls.
Additionally, the Teams communities feature, which enables users to connect, share, and collaborate in groups resembling Discord, will be available on Windows 11 beginning this week (macOS and Windows 10 compatibility will follow). Windows 11 users can create communities, host events, moderate content, and be notified about upcoming activities, just like they can on other platforms with Teams communities.
Another people group revelation highlight, set to carry out before very long on Windows 11, iOS, and Android, permits Groups clients to join networks zeroed in on subjects like nurturing, gaming, planting, innovation, and remote work. (Microsoft asserts that community owners on iOS and Android are responsible for making it possible for their communities to be discovered on Teams.) If they so choose, owners can approve or reject requests to join their communities, assign owner controls to other members of the group, create polls using MS Forms, and send posts as emails.
In a connected update, Groups people group individuals can now record recordings from their cell phones utilizing another catch insight with refreshed channels and markup devices. Owners of communities on iOS can scan and invite emails or phone numbers from a paper directory, online document, or other list using their phone’s camera.
As Teams continues to expand, primarily thanks to the rise of remote and hybrid work models, a plethora of new features are added. From 2021 to 2022, the number of daily active Teams users nearly doubled, reaching 270 million from 145 million.
