Microsoft Teams is coming to Android Auto in February.
Android Auto, an app that enables Android phones to connect to a car’s built-in system, will introduce Microsoft’s communication and collaboration platform next month, almost a year after first being announced at Google’s I/O 2023 event. Users can join meetings and make calls from the calendar view.
Microsoft’s 365 Roadmap wrote:
Teams on Android Auto lets you easily join meetings from the calendar view, quickly call your speed dial contacts and see your recent calls on your Android phones.”
However, there’s no further information on whether Android Auto will also integrate with chat and channel messaging or complement other Teams capabilities like file sharing.
Google announced Android Auto integration for Teams, Zoom and Webex at its I/O in 2023, with both latter platforms arriving on the app last September. It’s unclear why it’s taken so long for Teams to follow suit. Google has stated that Android Auto is integrated with over 200 million cars and that its Android Automotive infotainment operating system, which is separate from the Android Auto app, has grown significantly in its adoption rate, with car companies like Chevrolet, Volvo, and Honda onboarding the platform.
Microsoft Teams in Android Auto will be generally available for Android Auto users next month.
What Major Microsoft News Happened Last Week?
A week of significant Copilot news kickstarted 2024 and highlighted how serious Microsoft is about its AI-powered productivity tool.
The tech giant revealed it was Windows keyboards that will include a key for Copilot — signalling the first significant change to its keyboard design in 30 years.
As part of Microsoft’s campaign, in which it described its intention for 2024 to be the “year of the AI PC”, a new Copilot key will ship on various new PCs and laptops designed by Microsoft’s partners. The key will provide instant access to Windows Copilot with a single button press.
Yusuf Mehdi, Executive Vice President, Consumer Chief Marketing Officer at Microsoft, said in the official announcement:
We believe it will empower people to participate in the AI transformation more easily. The Copilot key joins the Windows key as a core part of the PC keyboard, and when pressed, the new key will invoke the Copilot in Windows experience to make it seamless to engage Copilot in your day-to-day.”
The key will be located between the “Alt” and left arrow keys on the new keyboards and marks the first alteration to the PC keyboard since the Windows key was added in 1994.
In other prominent Copilot news, Microsoft launched Android and iOS apps for the service. The Copilot mobile app is functionally reminiscent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT mobile version, including an intuitive interface in which users can write prompts to ask questions, summarise text, draft emails, blogs and documents. Users can also create images by prompting its DALL-E 3 image creator technology.
The app features access to one of OpenAI’s latest LLMs, GPT-4, which users have to pay for access to through ChatGPT, and users can download the Android app from the Google Play Store and the iOS version from the Apple App Store now.
Lastly, on the Copilot front, Microsoft expanded its Intelligent Recap feature for Teams Premium to Copilot users. The capability means that Copilot users can request an AI-honed summary of a past video meeting, such as timeline markers, screen sharing information, and when the user’s name was mentioned.
It wasn’t all Copilot last week, however. Microsoft also introduced a more straightforward way to forward messages in Teams chats to boost productivity and efficiency.
Teams users can now forward messages between chats with one right click. It’s also now more accessible to add forwarded messages with valuable contextual information, which can be forwarded to either individual or group chats. This feature is now generally available.
- Read more about the Copilot key
- Read more about the Copilot mobile apps
- Read more about Intelligent Recap for Copilot
- Read more about message forwarding in Teams
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