Microsoft Corporation is a global technology company founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Best known for Windows, Office, and Azure, Microsoft has evolved into a cloud- and AI-first business serving organizations of every size across virtually every industry. With more than 228,000 employees worldwide and a broad portfolio spanning productivity, cloud infrastructure, business applications, and gaming, Microsoft is one of the largest and most influential software vendors in the world.
Microsoft Teams, launched in 2017, is the company’s flagship collaboration and communication platform within Microsoft 365. It unifies persistent chat, meetings, webinars, calling, and file collaboration in a single interface tightly integrated with Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, and the broader Microsoft 365 suite. Teams is positioned as the central hub where people can meet, message, co-author documents, and access key business apps without leaving the workspace.
For video and webinar use cases, Microsoft Teams offers scheduled and ad‑hoc meetings, interactive webinars with registration and reporting, and large-scale town hall events that can support thousands of attendees. Features such as screen sharing, live captions, recordings with transcripts, Q&A, polling, breakout rooms, and robust moderation controls make it suitable for training, marketing webinars, internal all‑hands meetings, and external customer events. Teams Premium further extends these capabilities with advanced webinar controls, branding, and higher attendee limits.
Adoption of Microsoft Teams is massive: estimates indicate more than 320 million users and over one million organizations worldwide rely on it, including the vast majority of Fortune 100 companies. Because Teams is included in many Microsoft 365 plans and benefits from enterprise-grade security, compliance certifications, and an extensive ecosystem of apps and certified devices, it occupies a leading position in the enterprise collaboration and video/webinar platform market, competing primarily with Zoom, Google Workspace/Meet, Cisco Webex, and Slack.
