How Microsoft Teams providing solutions to firms amid Covid crisis

Every crisis offers new learnings and the Covid-19 situation is no different. The lockdown and social distancing have made remote working and learning the new normal. “As we enter the eighth week of a nationwide lockdown, we have started embracing new ways to survive and thrive,” says Samik Roy, country head, Modern Workplace, Microsoft India. Teams is the fastest growing app from Microsoft, a unique communication and collaboration platform that provides the ability to work from anywhere, anytime and on any device. “In April, globally, we saw more than 200 million Microsoft Teams meeting participants in a single day, generating more than 4.1 billion meeting minutes. Thirty out of the country’s top 50 companies are working remotely on Microsoft Teams,” he tells Sudhir Chowdhary in an interview, while emphasising that ‘remote everything’ trend will sustain and tech intensity will continue to accelerate. Excerpts: