You can get started for free of course without buying the whole Microsoft 365 bundle, but you won’t be able to get all the benefits and integrations that come with the Microsoft 365 bundle. Teams is available either as a free, stand-alone app that you can download from the web, or as a part of the Microsoft 365 suite of products. Teams is nothing but a video conferencing application that helps people create a team and collaborate using chat function instead of emails, and channels instead of just files and folders. Well, Teams is a collaboration tool and a hub for teamwork which brings everything from conversations to chats, phone calls, meetings, file content and applications together all in one complete package.

Although, it has much of its DNA taken from Skype for Business, Teams is different from Skype. Teams was announced at an event in New York and released in 2017. Microsoft Teams is a business communication and collaboration platform developed by Microsoft and which evolved from Microsoft’s Skype for Business.

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