Microsoft Teams Essentials - Annual subscription Teams Essentials is an affordable, professional meeting solution designed to help small businesses communicate and collaborate in an easy, secure, and reliable way. 10 GB of cloud storage per user Real-time collaboration with file sharing, tasks, and polling Team meeting recordings with transcripts and live captions (English) Standard security with data encryption for meetings, chats, calls, and files Microsoft 365 Copilot, available as an add-on Microsoft 365 apps and services Teams Hardware requirements for Teams on a Windows PC Detailed hardware requirements for Microsoft Teams are also available for Mac, Linux, Mobile, and Virtual Desktop. View Microsoft Teams hardware requirements Computer and processor Minimum 1.1 GHz or faster, 2 core Note: For Intel processors, the maximum speed achieved using Intel Turbo Boost Technology (Max Turbo Frequency) must be considered Memory 4.0 GB RAM Hard disk 3.0 GB of available disk space Display 1024 x 768 screen resolution Graphics hardware Windows OS: Graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX 9 or later, with WDDM 2.0 or higher for Windows 10 (or WDDM 1.3 or higher for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update) Operating system Windows 11, Windows 10 (excluding Windows 10 LTSC), Windows 10 on ARM, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2. Note: We recommend using the latest Windows version and security patches available. .NET version Requires .NET 4.5 CLR or later Video calls and meetings Requires 2-core processor. For higher video and screen share resolution and frame rate, a 4-core processor or better is recommended. Background video effects require Windows 10 or a processor with AVX2 instruction set. See hardware decoder and encoder driver recommendations for a list of unsupported decoders and encoders. Joining a meeting using proximity detection in a Microsoft Teams Room requires Bluetooth LE, which requires Bluetooth to be enabled on the client device, and for Windows clients it also requires the 64-bit Teams client. This feature is not available on 32-bit Teams clients. Teams live events If you are producing a Teams live event, we recommend using a computer that has a Core i5 Kaby Lake processor, 4.0-GB RAM (or higher), and hardware encoder. See hardware decoder and encoder driver recommendations for a list of unsupported decoders and encoders. Video
