Forward of its Enterprise Join (opens in new tab) occasion, a brand new Microsoft Groups app for Home windows is now obtainable in public preview, with the tech large claiming that it’s two occasions as quick and half as reminiscence intensive. 

As well as, the video conferencing software program has promised an intuitive visible overhaul (so that you aren’t spending the entire day staring on the digital equal of a dentist’s ready room) that’ll make notifications, messages, and channels obtainable in fewer clicks.

The launch follows Microsoft’s latest announcement that it’s bringing synthetic intelligence and GPT-Four to Microsoft 365 sooner or later sooner or later within the type of Microsoft 365 Copilot.

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Microsoft has introduced Groups into the twenty-first century by providing a function Google Workspace has had for an excellent whereas: the power to modify accounts with out logging out and in.

Nonetheless, it’s gone one higher than Google. Fairly than simply remembering your whole accounts, Groups will provide you with notifications for all of them, “regardless of which one you might be presently utilizing.”

Although Microsoft in the end had nothing new to say about Copilot, it did describe the brand new app as a “basis” for that function, and point out that the preview launch could be expanded to Mac customers, in addition to enterprise organizations who’ve explicitly opted into the brand new app down the road.

All being nicely, “New Groups” shall be typically obtainable later this 12 months. Who can say if it’s going to style worse and simply be there to drum up nostalgia for the outdated one?

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