Microsoft Teams is getting Games so Meetings aren’t so Boring
Solitaire and Minefield are just two of the Windows classics joining Microsoft Teams. Thanks to a new application, Games for Work, Microsoft now integrates a series of games specifically designed to entertain corporate users in its videoconferencing and collaboration service.
The goal? Strengthen relationships between colleagues, damaged by recent years of forced distancing. But let’s find out more about Microsoft’s brainchild and the games included in Games for Work for Teams.
Last July, Microsoft updated Teams, reserving for it a series of new useful tools and a kind of Facebook to communicate, a service that was enriched just over a month ago on the occasion of the Ignite 2022 conference. , the day that Microsoft officially announces a new application associated with Microsoft Teams, which is announced in the following terms: Connect with your colleagues to play? Yes thanks.
Playing with peers is a practice that can effectively promote relationships and collaboration. While some may find gaming to be a distraction at work, the benefits are many. For example, according to a study by Brigham Young University, teams that play together are 20% more productive than those that participate in more traditional team building activities.
Therefore, the spirit that Games for Work embraces is precisely this: a tool that encourages bonds between colleagues who work remotely, who use a service like Microsoft Teams to collaborate and work precisely. As anticipated, it’s a container application that includes several Microsoft games, some even old school integrated into Windows, to be played with your teammates in multiplayer mode (ranging from 2 to 250 users).
As expected, there are the classics Solitaire and Minefield ( Minefield ), very similar to the versions available in the Microsoft Store, the word game Wordament, through IceBreakers and others, all easy to play, available in light versions and fortunately without ads.
To try out these games, you only need to download the Games for Work application from the Microsoft Teams marketplace, an application that is not available for personal Teams accounts, but only for those who have a corporate account or for those who can join with an educational institution account.
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