Organizations with more than 10,000 Teams users Table 1 compares the figures given in January and July.
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However, in February 2021, Eran Megiddo, Microsoft CVP for Windows Product and Education claimed that 100 million students used Teams. Even though a Teams personal client will appear in Windows 11, I doubt it contributes much to the overall number. Microsoft doesn’t breakdown the Teams numbers across Teams enterprise, Teams for education, and Teams for personal life.Moving to report monthly active users is simply a way to swell the numbers. Opening the Teams client and accessing a channel is enough. You don’t have to do much to qualify as a monthly active user. The July number is for monthly active users. These are people who use the product day-in, day-out. The April 2021 number reported daily active users.I have some difficulty reconciling the two numbers. The jump in numbers over time illustrated by in Figure 1 is quite remarkable, especially as factors like work from home and transition from Skype for Business Online were largely baked into previous data.įigure 1: Is this sudden growth in Teams user numbers credible? Three months later, the headline number Microsoft is using for Teams is “nearly” 250 million, nearly 80 million of whom use the Teams Phone system. In April 2021, Microsoft reported that Teams had 145 million daily active users. Overall, strong growth and progress across Office 365, Microsoft 365, and Teams. Although the imminent retirement (July 31) of Skype for Business Online has quickened the transition to Teams, these are impressive numbers. What was interesting is the 80 million Teams users who have Teams Phone licenses and make 1 billion calls per month. The big surprise came when Microsoft reported “We have nearly 250 million monthly active users” for Teams.Reflecting the steady reduction in on-premises servers, Microsoft said that they expect a 20% revenue reduction in this area for next year.The demand for Microsoft 365 E5 probably reflects the need enterprises have for these licenses to access high-end compliance and data governance functionality along with the Enterprise Mobility and Security suite. Microsoft has had steady success in upselling customers from Office 365 plans to Microsoft 365 plans. Microsoft 365 E5 is now 8% of the Office 365 commercial base, or around 25 million.Given the normal rate of increase observed over the last six years, the number of active Office 365 users is likely around 280 million now with perhaps 315 million paid seats.
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I reckoned that the number of active users was around 264 million three months ago. They don’t give numbers for active users anymore. Microsoft started to talk about paid seats in the Q3 FY21 results when they reported 296.7 million paid seats. Office 365 paid seats grew 17% year over year.Microsoft attributed this success to “installed base expansion” and “higher average revenue per user (ARPU).” Office 365 commercial (the enterprise services) revenue grew 25% (20% in constant currency due to the weak dollar).Commercial Cloud revenue, which includes Office 365, achieved $19.5 billion in revenue for the quarter ($78 billion annualized run rate) and $69 billion for FY21.
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Here’s my take on the highlights relating to Office 365, Microsoft 365, and Teams: Microsoft released its Q4 FY21 and overall FY21 results on Tuesday, July 27 and, as always, there were some interesting (and debatable) points raised in the data provided by Microsoft and the transcript of their call with analysts.