In April 2020 Microsoft Teams saw more than 200 million meeting participants in a single day, generating more than 4.1 billion meeting minutes.
Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
What would count as true or false
True: Microsoft's records (its FY20 Q3 earnings call or press materials from late April 2020) report that Teams had more than 200 million meeting participants in a single day in April 2020, producing more than 4.1 billion meeting minutes. Mostly true: the figures are confirmed but the day fell in late March rather than April, or the numbers differ slightly (within about 5%) while still near the stated thresholds. Mixed: only one of the two figures is confirmed. Mostly false: the official figures were materially below both thresholds, or applied to a different measure (for example daily active users). False: the official figures contradict both.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (3)
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E1 Microsoft Teams passes 75 million daily active users VentureBeat · 29 April 2020
“We saw more than 200 million meeting participants in a single day this month, generating more than 4.1 billion meeting minutes," Nadella said on the call.”
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E2 2 years of digital transformation in 2 months Microsoft News (news.microsoft.com, en-my) · 4 May 2020 Own record
“In April, we saw more than 200 million Microsoft Teams meeting participants in a single day, generating more than 4.1 billion meeting minutes.”
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E3 2 years of digital transformation in 2 months Microsoft News (news.microsoft.com, en-my) · 4 May 2020 Own record
“Our daily meeting participants number is the aggregate number of people joining a meeting in a day—so if someone participates in five meetings in a day, they would be counted five times.”
Reasoning
The criteria count the claim as true if Microsoft's FY20 Q3 earnings call or its press materials from around that time report the figures. E1, an independent VentureBeat report dated 2020-04-29, records that Nadella gave the figures on the earnings call: more than 200 million meeting participants in a single day and more than 4.1 billion meeting minutes. E3, Microsoft's official news post of 2020-05-04, repeats both figures and says they were for April. E4 explains that the participant count is an aggregate of meeting joins, not unique users, but it does not contradict the claim as stated.
Cite this claim
Satya Nadella, “In April 2020 Microsoft Teams saw more than 200 million meeting participants in a single day, generating more than 4.1 billion meeting minutes.” (said 30 April 2020). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_2f5b9dd1f558, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_2f5b9dd1f558
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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