Microsoft Teams Gains Live Share Experiences and More
May. 24, 2022Firstly, Microsoft Teams will get aLive Share feature, which will allow users to edit, create, and do loads of things together with the participants at the same time. This is an extended capability of the screen-sharing feature, which only allows users to show their screens to others.
The Live Share experiences are based on the Fluid Framework and the Azure Fluid Relay to sync these tasks in real-time. This functionality will be initially adopted by Frame.io, Hexagon, Skillsoft, MakeCode, Accenture, Parabol, and Breakthru. Developers can also use preview extensions for the Teams SDK to extend Live Share experiences to other apps.
There’s an interesting change for the developers, which is to provide afreemium experience to users in a Teams appby adding some paywalled features for the in-app purchase functionality. This is now available.
There are loads of new changes for developers, including theavailability of the Teams SDK for developersto make apps for Teams, the availability of the Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio, VS Code, and command-line interface (CLI), and more. Further, more collaborative apps for Microsoft Teams have been announced. These include the MURAL app, the Observable app, SAP S/4HANA operational purchaser chatbot, ServiceDesk Plus Cloud app, and Figma. These should be available soon. To know more about what Microsoft has announced for the developers, you can check out itsofficial blog post.
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