Microsoft is greatly improving its free version of Microsoft Teams on Windows 11 today. The built-in Teams app will now include support for Microsoft’s communities feature inside Teams, the company’s answer to Facebook and Discord. It’s also getting support for
, the AI art tool that lets you generate images for things like event invitations or social media posts using text prompts.for family and friends — or small community groups and businesses — to organize through meetings, calendars, and chat. It’s Microsoft’s answer to what you might find on Facebook or how people use Discord, WhatsApp, Reddit, and many other services for organizing groups.
A preview version of Microsoft Designer will also be available in the built-in version of Microsoft Teams on Windows 11. Designer could be useful for communities to create event invite imagery or even for community banners inside Teams. It’s the same service that’s being , a combination of some DALL-E and Adobe Express-like features for basic AI-powered image generation.Alongside the Windows 11 expansion, communities in Teams is also getting some mobile and general usability improvements. You can now record videos from a mobile device with markup tools and filters, and in the coming days, you’ll be able to find featured communities to join across iOS, Android, and Windows 11.
Microsoft is also updating GroupMe, the mobile group messaging service that Microsoft acquired when it