New Delhi, 3 Dec (KNN) Microsoft has launched Teams Essentials curated for small businesses with online meetings and collaborations having monthly charges of INR 100, as reported in ET.

This offering by software giant gives SMEs and  an affordable meeting solutions enhancing productivity, connectivity and collaborations.

Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President of Modern Work at Microsoft said, “We realize how difficult the past two years has been for small businesses to perform with limited tools and technology. Through Teams Essentials we aspire to meet the needs of those business and for them to thrive this tech driven era.”

Teams Essentials provides unlimited group meetings for up to 30 hours, along with 10 GB of cloud storage per user and meeting capacity of 300 people.

It also includes existing and new capabilities available in the free version such as invitations requires only an email address, and users are not required to sign up, sign in or install Teams to participate in a meeting

In addition to Outlook Calendar integration, new Google Calendar integration makes it easy to schedule meetings in Microsoft Teams, along with professional meeting tools and capabilities like meeting lobby, virtual backgrounds. Together mode, live closed captions and live reactions.

Teams Essentials also enables continuity with chats in Microsoft Teams, and can quickly start a group project and host meetings with anyone, assign tasks to teammates, and create polls to receive feedback quickly all in one hub with the new small-business group chat template.