The short version
Both give your team chat, channels, calendar and calls, and both have AI built in. The difference is how far you have to trust that AI.
Microsoft Teams comes with Copilot. Microsoft commits that your prompts stay within its Microsoft 365 service boundary and aren't used to train its models. Those protections are commitments Microsoft makes about its own cloud.
HOLOH Workspaces gives you confidential AI agents. They run in hardware-isolated, attested environments the model provider can't read, and every answer carries proof you can check. HOLOH also works alongside Teams, and its meetings can happen in 3D.
AI at work: trust or verify
| Topic | HOLOH Workspaces | Microsoft Teams |
|---|---|---|
| AI inside the chat | Agents you @mention in any channel; they answer in the thread | Copilot in chats, channels and meetings |
| Personal AI | A personal agent per member that answers only to them | Copilot for each licensed user |
| Shared team AI | Coworker agents, bound to their workspace by the platform | Copilot agents |
| Where the AI runs | Confidential agents: hardware-isolated, remotely attested environments (AMD SEV-SNP) | Microsoft 365 service boundary |
| Can the model provider read your prompts? | No, for confidential agents | Covered by Microsoft's data-handling commitments |
| Proof on each answer | Yes, attestation evidence on every confidential reply | No |
| If protection can't be verified | The agent stops; it never falls back to a standard model | — |
| Choice of AI models | Admins choose which models agents may use | Microsoft's choice |
In practice: with Teams, you rely on Microsoft's policies about what happens to your data. With HOLOH, you set up confidential agents for sensitive work, and every answer they give is verifiably processed in protected hardware.
How a meeting feels
| Topic | HOLOH Workspaces | Microsoft Teams |
|---|---|---|
| Meeting view | Classic grid, or a 3D room with one click | Grid and Together mode |
| Move around and take a seat | Yes, in the 3D room | No |
| Whiteboard | Shared whiteboard inside the room | Whiteboard app |
| Screen share, recording, live transcript | ✓ | ✓ |
| A permanent room per channel | Yes, so the team always meets in the same place | Channel meetings |
| Guests from the browser | Yes, from the meeting link, with a lobby | Yes, via the web client |
Working together with Teams
You don't have to choose one. HOLOH is built on Azure Communication Services, Microsoft's own communications platform. HOLOH users can join your Teams meetings once your Teams admin enables it. Keep company-wide meetings on Teams, and move the teams handling sensitive work to HOLOH first.
| Topic | HOLOH Workspaces | Microsoft Teams |
|---|---|---|
| Join a Teams meeting | Yes, as an external participant | Native |
| Requires leaving Microsoft 365 | No | — |
When Teams is the right choice
If your priority is very large meetings or webinars, deep integration with Word, Excel and SharePoint, or mobile-first work, Teams is built for that. HOLOH is built for the teams whose work is too sensitive for AI they can't verify.
What each one costs
| Topic | HOLOH Workspaces | Microsoft Teams |
|---|---|---|
| Getting started | Free during early access | Teams Essentials $4.00 per user per month |
| AI | Included in early access | Copilot Chat included with eligible plans; Microsoft 365 Copilot Business $18.00 and Enterprise $30.00 per user per month, as an add-on |
| Enterprise | Custom, scoped with you | E-series suites, with or without Teams |
Microsoft prices are per user per month on an annual commitment, in US dollars, checked October 2026.