Office 365 – Microsoft Teams The program can’t start because MSVCP140.dll is missing

After Microsoft released Microsoft Teams yesterday I tried to install it on my company issued laptop (Windows 8.1 64bit).  Upon opening Teams I was greeted with the following error: “The program can’t start because MSVCP140.dll is missing from your computer. Continue reading Office 365 – Microsoft Teams The program can’t start because MSVCP140.dll is missing