These small tweaks to Microsoft Teams will help you work better

During its Microsoft Ignite event, the Redmond giant announced that it will soon combine its To Do, Planner and Project applications into a single experience integrated into Microsoft Teams.
It’s official, Microsoft will soon offer us what it calls a ” unified experience», especially on Teams. Understand by this that the collaborative communication application will combine several of its tools into one in the hope of boosting the productivity of its users. In detail, we learn how the tools Microsoft To Do , Planner And Projectwill soon become one.
Microsoft also announces that it has chosen a name for this unified experience: “ Microsoft Planner “. The firm also explains to us that if these changes arrive on Teams from spring 2024, they will also be relevant for the web version of these different tools… but this time later in 2024, without further details at this stage.
Reorganization, a hint of repranding, all sprinkled with AI
As reported TechCrunch , Tasks by Planner and the app To Do in Microsoft Teams will immediately be renamed to Microsoft Planner.Against all expectations, Microsoft specifies that the web version of its toolMicrosoft Projectwill only be renamed in the coming months.
Unsurprisingly, given Microsoft’s recent strategy, a sprinkling of AI is of course on the agenda. We discover, for example, that Microsoft’s Copilot AI will be added to the new version ofPlanner. In particular, it will be able to help users plan activities more quickly while suggesting new tasks.
Announced as part of the Microsoft Ignite 2023 event, held this week, these new features in any case aim to bring together, under a single identity, a whole series of somewhat disparate applications and tools. . In short, it is a grouping of different platforms that can be used to manage individual tasks or to implement larger projects.
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