As a Microsoft marketing person this really made me laugh :-)
As a fellow marketer can you comment on what the decision making process would be like for something like a product hero image?
GSuite has a similar image. I think the idea is teams are collaborating over the internet https://gsuite.google.com/
GSuite seems to be suggesting that they're in different cities, due to the different buildings in the background. It's also full of things you'd want even when sitting at a table with people--docs, sheets, etc.
I think they're marketing how you'll feel when you use the product, not what it looks like to use the product.
Maybe the people sitting around the table are not a team, but friends who work at totally different organizations, and are currently using the product to stay connected to their teams?
I personally don't choose products based on their marketing photos, but that one seems fine to me. The group are obviously interacting and engaged in their conversation, which is probably what the marketing people were trying to convey.