You can now try the Microsoft Teams application for Linux

It was known for a few months and has just been fulfilled: Microsoft Teams for Linux is a fact. A relevant fact, moreover, because it is "the first Microsoft 365 application that reaches Linux desktops," reports the company.

Microsoft Teams for Linux arrives in technical preview mode, trimmed in terms of functions, but with the promise that "it will support all the basic functionalities of Teams" as its development progresses, for which Microsoft encourages interested users to They test the application and report the errors they find.

Microsoft Teams is, to put it in a nutshell, the Microsoft Slack: a communications service for workgroups that includes chat rooms, videoconferencing, real-time office collaboration, file sharing, integration with Microsoft 365 applications and third parties and many other productivity tools. And although Slack is the reference of the sector, Redmon's proposal is very strong in this area thanks to everything behind it. That is, thanks to Microsoft 365.

“Most of our clients have devices that run on a variety of different platforms, such as Windows 10, Linux and others. We are committed to supporting mixed environments in our productivity and cloud offerings, and with this announcement, we are pleased to extend the Teams experience to Linux users, ”says Microsoft in the presentation of Microsoft Teams for Linux (there you will see several GIF showing the application).

That this is "the first application of Microsoft 365 that reaches Linux desktops" has a trick, because Microsoft 365 is the reformulation of Office 365 as a product for companies. But Skype was already. And it is not a native application, although the latter is debatable. Like Skype or Visual Studio Code itself, it is an Electron application, which is ultimately the basis they use for the new cross-platform applications they are launching.

If you are interested in trying Microsoft Teams for Linux, you can download the installer for Deb and RPM distributions, only for 64-bit.

And if you're interested in knowing what else Microsoft has prepared for Linux, the next thing should be Microsoft Edge, although we'll have to wait until 2020 to see it.