Microsoft Teams now has 145 million daily active users. It is said to be about 26% growth in user base since October last year when the company had reported 115 million daily active users.
At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Microsoft Teams had about 32 million daily active users. With pandemic forcing people to work remotely, the platform added 75 million users in just a few weeks. The user base continued to soar in the coming months.
#MicrosoftTeams now 145 million daily active users ?? – thank you to customers, partners, and team
— Jeff Teper (@jeffteper) April 27, 2021
Apart from Microsoft Teams, platforms like Google Meet and Zoom too registered a similar growth throughout 2020. According to The Verge, Zoom had about 300 million daily active participants last year. Google said it had about 100 million daily active participants.
Slack, a popular workplace collaboration platform, reported 12.5 million concurrent users at the beginning of the pandemic. Slack since then has not disclosed the daily active user base.
Earlier, Microsoft reported a growth in profits in the first quarter of 2021. It had a fiscal third-quarter profit of $14.8 billion, up 38% from the same period last year. The growth was mainly driven by the ongoing demand for its software and cloud computing services.
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“Over a year into the pandemic, digital adoption curves aren’t slowing down. They’re accelerating, and it’s just the beginning,” CEO Satya Nadella said in a statement.
Revenue from Microsoft’s productivity segment, which includes its Office suite of workplace products, rose 15% over the same time last year, to $13.6 billion. Its cloud computing business segment recorded a growth of 23% to $15.1 billion.
