Microsoft announced that it had seen a sharp increase in the usage of its Microsoft Teams and other solutions in Italy as the country is struggling with the coronavirus pandemic.
Massive Increase in Microsoft Teams Users in Italy
Almost every country is under lockdown to evade the looming coronavirus crisis, which is out there, posing a significant threat to the lives of humans. In the locked-down situation, every business is operating remotely, and this has resulted in millions of employees working from home, which has created a never seen rise in the use of virtual communication platforms.
Teams is in Demand
Microsoft teams has also seen an unprecedented increase in use ever since the coronavirus pandemic broke up. Italy, which is one of the worst affected countries by the coronavirus pandemic, has recorded a massive 775 percent rise in the use of the Microsoft teams.
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Microsoft revealed that the Microsoft Teams’ collaboration and communication services has extremely high usage in Italy as the country has imposed extreme lockdown and social distancing orders. There is a sharp increase in the use of cloud-based services and remote connectivity solutions.
Microsoft products see huge demand across Industries
Microsoft Teams recorded more than 900 million online meetings and calling minutes in a day with more than 44 million users per day in a single week.
The Pore BI data-visitation solution by the company has also seen an increase of 42 percent by Microsoft as even the government agencies are using their services to share information about coronavirus.
Skype is also in demand
Skype Video calling service has also seen an increase in usage as the company reached 40 million users for Skype.
The Remote Desktop connectivity has also tripled as more and more employees are connecting online.
Coronavirus Increased the need for remote work
Coronavirus has created much turbulence in the world, and it has changed the way the business will function forever. There is more stress on the digitalization of services, and the need is to bring most of the operations online. The companies are now moving their solutions and unfractured over the cloud for anywhere and anytime connectivity. Microsoft has seen a massive increase in demand for its products and solutions as a coronavirus crisis emerged.
Microsoft tweaking its rules for Azure
The company has made changes in the laws of its Azure could service to cope with the rising demand. It has also posed certain limits of use of features and resources as the crisis has increased the need. The company also announced to restructure its consumer-focused offerings for the cloud infrastructure.