The single window Teams experience needs to be restored or a new single window Teams experience implemented/added since the settings option to disable the new meeting experience has been removed. Why?
- The new meeting experience decreases productivity. It reduces what's visible by using more screen area for additional pop-out windows (for all meetings I'm simultaneously switching between) that you don't need to see (aside from a mute/unmute toggle, pause/resume toggle and the name of the meeting I'm in).
- The new meeting experience requires users to switch between windows to see a "wide view" of chat/IM texts from a meeting.
- The new meeting experience increases the # of apps shown on the taskbar (both the vertical taskbar layout as well as the horizontal default) when grouping is disabled (to provide better at a glance insight into everything running and mouse based app switching) and thus reduces the number of visible apps that can be shown without scrolling the taskbar.
- Teams does not have an option to disable/eliminate the inability to automatically/fully minimize a meeting pop-up window. When "minimized" it instead creates a smaller visible window to still control the meeting (which the user obviously didn't want because it was minimized!)... which also per-meeting creates another app shown in the taskbar too.
- Teams has a large minimum window size (both width and height) for meeting pop-out windows that prevents one from reducing the wasted desktop space for them. (Not too mention, the large minimum primary window size of the Teams app!)
Apparently this needs to be submitted somewhere else as a "new COMPACT user interface experience" feature to get it added to Teams...
Can some Microsoft rep handle submitting this? If not, where can this be done?
FYI: Regarding my primary Teams usage scenario... 95% of the meetings I attend use no video, and primarily only use audio and chat, with screen/app sharing sometimes. My team of ~15 people only use video for a remote lunch gathering once every week or two. Aside from an occasional 1-2 meetings per day, we use a 24/7 standing meeting that is always available that most of us are always in (and/or resume after a short independent meeting). It emulates being in the office, and is generally silent with most discussions taking place in the IM/chat. However, if one wants to talk with somebody else, they'll unmute and ask their question (sometime proceeded with a "is Joe Doe there" if they didn't feel like checking the participant list). When there is a detailed oral discussion/topic I don't want to hear or interrupt my train of thought, I'll temporarily pause/hang-up and then rejoin at a later point. We've been doing this now for just over a full year. Thus, I always have at least one meeting running/paused and then another 1 or 2 "timeboxed" meetings that will overlap. Thus, I always want to see a wide full chat view from a meeting and generally have no need for face tiles/video until such a time that we screen share (in which case I'll fullscreen to see as much resolution as possible). I also reply on the green/red notification indicator on the Teams tasklet icon to know if there's a text message new to review/not in any channels, chats or meetings that I'm in.
Thanks!