Microsoft Teams is officially available on Linux

Finally, Microsoft has announced a preview release of Teams application specifically for the Linux platform. The Microsoft Teams preview for Linux is currently available in .deb and .rpm formats. It is known that Microsoft has conducted internal testing of Teams for Linux in the past few months before deciding to make it public, showing the company's seriousness in this ambitious project.

It is also important to note that Teams is the first Office application developed by Microsoft for Linux desktop systems. The Teams for Linux version will essentially still support all the core features available on other platforms including Windows.

Following 2018, 2019 is still an amazing year for the open source software world and Linux continues to be the name that holds the central position of all that development and innovation. Microsoft naturally understood this from years ago, as evidenced by the fact that Redmond has turned 360 degrees, moving from a hostile policy with Linux under former CEO Steve Ballmer, to mutually beneficial cooperation. . The official launch of Teams Linux version is only a small move in the strategy of making Linux become a 'golden egg' partner of Microsoft when in the future, the use of open source operating systems is announced. will be the trend of the tech world.

'We realize that open source is really something that every developer loves because they can get the most out of it. Open source software is not always good, but it is necessary. It's not just lines of code, it's communities, "said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of the Cloud and AI division of Microsoft.

Back to Microsoft Teams. This is a team application launched in 2016, supports chat, document sharing, video calling, and is integrated with other famous Microsoft applications such as Office 365, Skype. Last November. Microsoft claims Teams currently has 20 million active users. With this milestone, Microsoft Teams now has nearly twice as many active users as Slack, and has become one of the extremely important service platforms in Redmond's development strategy.

You can download the Microsoft Teams Linux version here.

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