Microsoft Teams Has 115M ‘Daily Active Users,’ Says Nadella

PCs are “mission-critical” for working and studying from home in a “remote-everything world,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told investors Tuesday evening. Windows 10 monthly active devices are up double digits year over year, and Microsoft will have its largest lineup ever of Surface devices “this holiday season to support every person and work style,” he said. Microsoft Teams has more than 115 million “daily active users,” and the Microsoft 365 suite of productivity apps “generated more than 30 billion collaboration minutes in a single day this quarter,” he said. Q1 ended Sept. 30. It added more than 100 “new capabilities” to Teams in the past six months, “including breakout rooms, meeting recaps, shift scheduling and large-scale digital events up to 20,000 participants,” said Nadella. CTA picked Microsoft last week as its “cloud platform" contractor to run CES 2021 as a virtual event (see 2010190043).