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Last month, Microsoft said Teams usage had increased to 44 million daily active users during the current coronavirus pandemic. Now, The edge reports that the platform’s user base has increased by 70%. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed in an investor call that Teams now has more than 75 million active users.
Nadella would also provide new statistics during the call for the use of the equipment. The Microsoft platform saw 200 million participants in the meeting in a single day. A statistic that Zoom has been using to note its own growth during the pandemic and global remote work migration. Zoom itself managed 300 million meeting participants during March and April.
The edge Records that Zoom has been confusing the comparisons, providing misleading information that the company has recently corrected. The company originally stated that it had “more than 300 million daily users” and that “more than 300 million people worldwide are using Zoom during this difficult time.”
Since then Zoom has removed these references, having changed these statements to “300 million Zoom meeting participants daily.” The wrangling company, which recently found itself involved in several legal skirmishes over its poorly managed security and privacy features, has yet to release actual daily active user statistics.
The difference between the terms “Daily Active Users” and “Daily Meeting Participants” is also important as it means two different things. Daily meeting participants count multiple meetings, so if you have five Zoom or Team meetings in one day, it will be counted five times.
A company could easily use this inflated number to trick the uninformed into believing that its user base is much larger than it actually is. The difference also helps us notice that Microsoft may be much closer to Zoom’s user base than previously expected.
Microsoft also has 258 million paid seats for Office 365, recently renamed Microsoft 365, which now includes Teams. Clearly, the company still has a long way to go to convince its existing Office user base to switch to Teams. Still, it’s possible that almost 30 percent of your paid Office 365 seats are already using Teams.
Edited by Luis Monzon
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