[NFBWATlk] FW: [teams-access] Microsoft Teams free all-day video calling beats Zoom's Thanksgiving gift - CNET

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Great news, thanks.

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CNET - Friday, November 20, 2020 at 10:11 AM

Microsoft Teams free all-day video calling beats Zoom's Thanksgiving gift -
CNET [microsoft-logo-laptop-3802]

Microsoft wants get people using Teams for video calling over the holiday
season.
Angela Lang/CNET

Zoom already revealed it'll drop its 40-minute meeting time limit for
Thanksgiving<https://www.cnet.com/news/zoom-will-drop-40-minute-limit-for-th
anksgiving/>, but Microsoft Teams is going a step further by offering free
all-day video
calling<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/11/19/bringi
ng-personal-features-in-microsoft-teams-to-desktop-and-web-now-available-in-
preview/>, as previously reported by The
Verge<https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/20/21579076/microsoft-teams-free-vide
o-calling-web-zoom-competition>. You can share meeting invites with people
who don't have Teams installed, the company noted Thursday.

"To help you stay connected in the coming months, you will be able to meet
for 24 hours with up to 300 participants until further specified," it wrote
in a blog post.

Read more: Microsoft Teams: How to change your background to whatever you
want<https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-change-your-microsoft-teams-backgrou
nd-to-whatever-you-want-customize-video-chat/>

Zoom and other video chatting apps have felt essential in 2020, when working
from home and communicating virtually became the norm under coronavirus
lockdowns and restrictions. Zoom's user base increased from 10 million in
December to 300 million in April, the FTC
reported<https://www.cnet.com/news/zoom-agrees-to-implement-more-security-fo
r-video-calls-under-ftc-settlement/>.

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