A new upgrade to Microsoft Teams may make responding to difficult messages much easier than ever before. 

The business communication platform is focusing on an update that will include “suggested responses” in Microsoft Teams chats. 

While widespread on Gmail, SMS services, and other platforms, the recommended response’s function will assess the context of the prior messages and present a handful of viable replies, doing all of the thinking for us. 

According to the Microsoft 365 roadmap post explaining the upgrade, Microsoft Teams will employ “assistive AI” to evaluate past messages and provide recommended replies. 

Users will be presented with up to 3 suggested replies from which to pick, and will also be able to transmit their selection with a click of the mouse. 

At the moment, the function has still been marked as “in progress,” but Microsoft has given a public release date of April this year, thus we may see a debut within the next several weeks. 

When it is released, the capability will be accessible to all Teams users worldwide who utilize the desktop platform. 

The new capability is the latest in a series of enhancements for Teams as the corporation strives to make it a must-have hybrid workplace tool. 

Lately, a set of add-ons for Teams introduced real-time interpretation, providing users access to a wide network of expert translators that dial into meetings on demand. Once a meeting has commenced, participants can utilize a drop-down menu to shift between both the original recording feed and the translator’s interpretation. 

Teams also recently stated that it is expanding the availability of its live captioning function to a broader range of users in an attempt to boost accessibility standards. Until today, the live captioning option was locked behind a registration barrier, thus anyone entering a meeting as a visitor through a link supplied by the host would have to do without the accessibility function. 

Teams keep growing in popularity, with the corporation’s newest data revealing that the platform now has over 270 million active monthly users.