One of the best Microsoft Teams features is finally available to all users
Background blur is now available across all Microsoft Teams clients
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Microsoftis preparing an update forcollaboration platformTeams that will extend one of the most useful features to an additional group of users.
As explained in anew entryin the company’s product roadmap, Microsoft is bringing the ability to blur the video background to customers running Teams onvirtual desktopinfrastructure (VDI).
“Users onTeamson VDI on Azure Virtual Desktop/Windows 365can blur their background in your video meeting and call,” the entry explains.
The feature still appears to be under development, but should be made available to relevant Microsoft Teams users by the end of the month.
Microsoft Teams backgrounds
Since the transition toremote working, a number ofvideo conferencingvendors have rolled out virtual background functionality, which allows users to obscure the room behind them with an overlay of their choice.
A more subtle option is to blur the background, which has the dual effect of obscuring anything incriminating that might be laying around in someone’s bedroom or home office and focusing the attention on the person’s face.
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Although Microsoft Teams has offered such a feature for a while now, it has traditionally been available to users of its desktop and mobile clients only.
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After bringing background effectsto the web clientlast month, Microsoft is now completing the set by extending the feature to those running Teams on Azure Virtual Desktop or Windows 365. The broad objective is to ensure the meeting experience is consistent for all Microsoft Teams users, no matter which client or hardware they are using the dial in.
Beyond the virtual backgrounds feature, Microsoft has made a number of recent additions to Teams with this goal in mind, including the ability tocontrol calls using Bluetooth devices,combine work and business accountsandaccess screen-sharing controlsacross all clients.
Joel Khalili is the News and Features Editor at TechRadar Pro, covering cybersecurity, data privacy, cloud, AI, blockchain, internet infrastructure, 5G, data storage and computing. He’s responsible for curating our news content, as well as commissioning and producing features on the technologies that are transforming the way the world does business.
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