Google has been tweaking Meet to ensure that it's fit for the job of conducting video meetings from home or work during constrained conditions, such as when the kids are streaming video at the same time as a work meeting needs to happen.
Microsoft is now tackling the same challenge for Teams – the chat, video and collaboration platform that has at least 115 million daily active users.
The company is taking a leaf from Zoom's strategy, which prioritizes audio over video to make sure users are heard over a poor broadband connection.
"Whether you want to preserve data or are in a location with a poor or limited network connection, sometimes it's helpful to limit the amount of data you're using during a video call," Microsoft explains in an update to its roadmap
