Microsoft’s teams communications and collaboration platform had more than 270 million active users per month in the fourth quarter of December last year. The number of users continued to increase, but the speed was much slower than that in the months before the outbreak of the epidemic.
Satya NADELLA, chief executive of Microsoft, released the latest data on Tuesday afternoon and the company’s quarterly earnings. This figure represents an increase of 20 million months of active users, which was 250 million announced by Microsoft in July 2021 six months ago.
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Previously, the company used indicators of daily active users, so these figures cannot be compared directly, but they do show how growth slowed. Because users do not need to use the product as frequently as mobile needles, the monthly figures are more tolerant. Among the daily activity users, the team jumped from 75 million in April 2020 to 115 million in October 2020 and 145 million in April 2021.
Teams compete with services, including slack, which salesforce acquired for $27.7 billion last year, and the widely used zoom video conferencing service. Last December, Microsoft launched an independent version of the small business team, which is separate from other office applications and services, posing a more direct threat to zoom.
NADELLA said on the earnings conference call that the use of third-party applications and customized solutions in the team has increased tenfold in the past two years, which is how the company can prove their work in a team centered way. He cited the latest and updated team application from atlassian on Monday. COM, sap and workday.