First announced at Microsoft’s Ignite event in October, the upgraded Teams platform will be generally available from next month. Teams Premium, a new tier of Microsoft Teams first announced at the company’s Ignite event in October, is set to be generally available from February this year. Operating in public preview since December, the Premium version of the collaboration application offers users advanced security features, such as the ability to watermark meetings, turn on end-to-end encryption for meetings with more than 50 participants, and add sensitivity labels for virtual meetings that will prevent participants from copying and pasting meeting chats. Additionally, with Teams Premium, users will be able to turn on live translation for captions from 40 languages, while customers hosting webinars will have access to advanced capabilities such as registration waitlist and manual approval, separate virtual greenrooms for presenters and attendees before an event begins, and the option to better manage what attendees see — allowing them to only see shared content and participants you bring on-screen, for example. This new version of Teams will also use artificial intelligence to trigger recaps, to-do lists and suggest action items so that follow-ups are not missed. Teams Premium requires an add-on license over and above a Microsoft 365 subscription and is expected to be priced at $10 per user per month, although Microsoft has said it will not reveal the final price until the tool is made generally available. Writing in a blog post when Teams Premium was first announced, Nicole Herskowitz, vice president of Microsoft Teams, said that Microsoft’s new offering will help make every meeting more personalized, intelligent, and secure. “Virtual and hybrid meetings continue to take up the lion’s share of time spent at work,” she wrote. “Now, more than ever, leaders need an integrated solution that combines all the advanced meeting capabilities, takes meeting culture to the next level, and allows them to do more with less.” Related content feature Windows 11 Insider Previews: What’s in the latest build? Get the latest info on new preview builds of Windows 11 as they roll out to Windows Insiders. Now updated for Build 22635.3646 for the Beta Channel, released on May 23, 2024. By Preston Gralla May 24, 2024 260 mins Small and Medium Business Microsoft Windows 11 news analysis New law may force Apple App Store to open up in UK The UK has a new law that is likely to impact Apple and force it to change some of the ways it does business. By Jonny Evans May 24, 2024 5 mins Apple App Store Apple iOS news analysis Windows Recall — a ‘privacy nightmare’? The Windows AI feature announced by Microsoft this week quickly drew criticism for recording regular screenshots of a user’s screen; one security expert compared it to keylogging software. By Matthew Finnegan May 24, 2024 7 mins Data Privacy Microsoft Windows 11 how-to How to migrate to a new Windows PC All your files, apps, and settings are on your old computer. Here’s how to move them to your new Windows PC, from either Windows or macOS. By Galen Gruman and Preston Gralla May 24, 2024 16 mins Small and Medium Business Windows 10 Microsoft Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe