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Microsoft Teams progressive web app now available on Linux

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Anupam_Pattnaik
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Nov 07, 2022
We’re excited to announce the general availability of support for the Microsoft Teams progressive web app (PWA) as a feature of our current web client for Linux customers.   Linux customers who r...
Updated Nov 04, 2022
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Nov 11, 2022

Thanks for the feedback, please keep it coming-- we're really glad to see people using the PWA scenarios

Great to see that someone is reading this feedback!

 

The PWA and web app offer a number of features that weren't feasible on the desktop app, including custom backgrounds

It was mentioned in the original post that custom backgrounds were a feature of the PWA and it's also been mentioned in the feedback that they don't actually seem to be available. To clarify

  • launching https://teams.microsoft.com/_#/calendarv2 then click meet now / start meeting and I can see the option to switch on custom backgrounds
  • launching https://teams.microsoft.com/_?clientType=pwa#/calendarv2 then click meet now / start meeting and I don't see the options to switch on custom backgrounds

The clientType=pwa seems to be the flag that the PWA appends to the URL.

 

I'm sure I'm not the only one but having a audible sound along with a notification is very useful. It seems all the PWA notifications are all currently silent?

 

We will continue to iterate on the PWA experience on Linux, while also looking to expand its functionality to other platforms.

Enabling the PWA on chromeOS would certainly be useful - the web app has always been the only option there.