One of the best Microsoft Teams features is finally available to all users

Microsoft is getting ready an replace for collaboration platform Teams that can prolong one of the most helpful features to an extra group of users.As defined in a new entry in the firm’s product roadmap, Microsoft is bringing the means to blur the video background to clients operating Teams on digital desktop infrastructure (VDI).

“Users on Teams on VDI on Azure Virtual Desktop/Windows 365 can blur their background in your video meeting and call,” the entry explains.The characteristic nonetheless seems to be below growth, however needs to be made available to related Microsoft Teams users by the finish of the month.

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Since the transition to distant working, a quantity of video conferencing distributors have rolled out digital background performance, which permits users to obscure the room behind them with an overlay of their selection.A more delicate possibility is to blur the background, which has the twin impact of obscuring something incriminating that may be laying round in somebody’s bed room or dwelling workplace and focusing the consideration on the individual’s face.Although Microsoft Teams has supplied such a characteristic for some time now, it has historically been available to users of its desktop and cellular shoppers solely.After bringing background results to the web consumer final month, Microsoft is now finishing the set by extending the characteristic to these operating Teams on Azure Virtual Desktop or Windows 365. The broad goal is to guarantee the assembly expertise is constant for all Microsoft Teams users, regardless of which consumer or {hardware} they're utilizing the dial in.

Beyond the digital backgrounds characteristic, Microsoft has made a quantity of latest additions to Teams with this objective in thoughts, together with the means to management calls utilizing Bluetooth units, mix work and enterprise accounts and entry screen-sharing controls throughout all shoppers.