Demand for video calling continues to surge, Microsoft and others say

Microsoft Corp said on Thursday that video calling and educational usage of its Teams productivity software had risen in recent weeks as employees work remotely and some U.S. schools cancel in-person classes for the rest of the academic year.

Microsoft said that video calls on Teams, which competes with apps such as Slack Technologies Inc and Zoom Video Communications Inc , were up 1,000per cent in the month of March, but did not give an absolute figure. The company said the proportion of meetings and calls that included video more than doubled to 43per cent from 21per cent over the month of March.

Microsoft also said that 183,000 education organizations, each of which can include multiple schools, in 175 countries were now using its Teams for Education, although it did not give a previous baseline. Overall minutes spent in meetings by all Teams users hit 2.7 billion on March 31, Microsoft said, triple the 900 million minutes on March 19.

Wickr typically serves executives or security teams within a large company who want its encryption to discuss financial or government secrets, rather than displacing Teams, Zoom or Slack.

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