I have questions and haven’t seen any solid information with answers.
- How will this work for chats if the app isn’t running in the foreground? (Can the PWA version park in the background reasonably well?)
- Can we have multiple Teams windows open in the PWA?
- Can we pop out individual chats in Teams so that there may be a half-dozen Teams windows open? This works on the desktop app now
- Can meetings run in a dedicated window so that communication continues?
- How will phone calls work? We are shifting to Teams-based VOIP at work. Can I receive a call over Teams PWA while also still communicating with my team via Chats? This works on the existing app.
- Really, will the PWA version of Teams be as robust as the desktop versions for Windows and Mac, like the Linux client is now, or will it be a stripped down iPad-esque version that the current Teams website is, more or less?
Given that Linux users were provided with a mostly great desktop app for what is an Electron app, this feels like bait-and-switch. I suspect that this won’t affect too many users, but that the users it affects will be justifiably noisy about what I suspect will be a major feature regression.
With Teams on Linux, Microsoft essentially said “trust us, we get it, this is important.” Now that people are (sometimes reluctantly) shifting from Zoom or Slack, this feels to me like the rug is being pulled out from beneath us.
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