Teams Adds Slash Commands to the Message Compose Box

Teams has added the ability to use slash commands (shortcuts) to the message compose box. Although the feature seems useful, I wonder about its potential usage. The fact is that people are pretty accustomed to how they compose message text and other options are available to add Loop or code blocks or set their online status, so why would they use the slash commands in the message compose box?

Real-Time Safe Link Protection for Teams Messages

The Safe Links capability in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is now generally available to protect Teams messages in chats and channel conversations, and even in web site links pinned as a channel tab. Most bad links flowing into an Office 365 tenant will continue to arrive by email, but this new capability closes off a gap where users are tempted to make a poor decision to share a malicious link through Teams.