For years, hybrid meetings have been an exercise in compromise—remote attendees straining to hear, in-room participants dominating the conversation, and IT managers stuck juggling patchwork solutions. Owl Labs thinks it has the fix, and now Microsoft agrees.

The Boston-based maker of AI-powered video conferencing gear announced that its Meeting Owl 4+ has officially achieved Microsoft Teams certification. That means the entire Owl Labs ecosystem—the Meeting Owl 3, Owl Bar, and now the 4+—has been vetted to meet Microsoft’s strict requirements for seamless integration, reliability, and enterprise-grade performance.

Why This Matters

Certification isn’t just a shiny sticker—it’s a major greenlight for IT buyers. Nearly 250,000 organizations (including 92 of the Fortune 100) already use Owl Labs devices. By earning the Teams seal of approval across its product line, Owl Labs is signaling that its hardware won’t just work in theory; it will work consistently inside corporate environments where downtime and incompatibility are nonstarters.

Frank Weishaupt, CEO of Owl Labs, framed it as a confidence play: “Our customers now have complete confidence that every device in the Owl Labs ecosystem meets the highest standards for Teams integration.” In other words, IT managers no longer have to gamble when outfitting a conference room—the Owl gear is built, tested, and certified to scale.

From Boardrooms to Coffee Shops

Owl Labs has always positioned itself as the antidote to static, wall-mounted systems that make hybrid meetings feel anything but hybrid. The Meeting Owl line, with its 360-degree cameras and plug-and-play portability, is designed to level the playing field between in-person and remote participants. Whether it’s a huddle room, a roundtable, or a large boardroom, the idea is to make collaboration feel less like a tech headache and more like, well, a meeting.

And unlike some of the pricier, fixed-room systems from Cisco or Poly, Owl Labs has leaned into flexibility and affordability. That makes it attractive not only to enterprises but also to schools, startups, and distributed teams that need to collaborate without building out expensive AV setups.

Compliance and Security, Too

The Teams certification adds to Owl Labs’ growing list of enterprise-ready validations: TAA Compliance, Cyber Essentials Plus, and BIS certification. For government agencies and heavily regulated industries, those stamps matter as much as video quality. Owl Labs also touts its U.S.-developed software, with continuous updates designed to improve both security and user experience.

The Bigger Picture

Hybrid collaboration remains one of the hottest battlegrounds in enterprise tech. Zoom has invested heavily in AI-powered meeting tools, Cisco Webex is betting on hardware-software integration, and Microsoft is building AI copilots into Teams itself. By securing full Teams certification, Owl Labs is ensuring it stays on the shortlist of IT-approved gear—at a time when CIOs are consolidating vendors and demanding proof of reliability.

For Owl Labs, the message is simple: Hybrid meetings aren’t going away, and neither is the need for gear that makes them less painful.

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