Microsoft Teams adds free communities feature, plans to take on rivals

Microsoft Teams on Thursday launched the free version of 'communities' -- a part of its enterprise offering allowing community discussions, sharing files and photos, joining video calls, and planning events -- for general consumers, to offer the same functionality to everyone.

The new feature will allow users to easily post messages to everyone in the group, organize events and add them to the community calendar. It will also enable them to share and store documents dedicated to group activity, and filter content to quickly access photos, videos, events, and links.

Community owners can invite group members via their email address