What’s New in Microsoft Teams | April 2020

What's not in Microsoft Teams yet - let's have a look through the top requests from UserVoice, all of which have thousands of votes, and some of which are over three years old.

• Show video for all people in a video meeting - New - 9 is a good start but not what was actually requested.
• Multiple accounts - Working on it- Over 3 years old, "working on it" for almost exactly 3 years.
• Multi-window for chats and more - In testing - Over 3 years old, "working on it" since August 2018, rolling out since... yesterday. No mention on this blog. No sharing of what this will look like.
• Move a channel - On the backlog - Over 3 years old, "working on it" but then withdrawn.
• Include Office365 calendar - Working on it - Over 3 years old, "working on it" since July 2018.
• Compact mode - Under review - Over 3 years old, was "working on it" for most of that time, now rolled backwards to "under review", still no indication that you understand what is actually being requested. Now that more people are collaborating on real work from home using single small laptop screens, the enormous Teams UI is a burden. A mechanism for working on another program while chatting about it in a *small* window is now higher priority than ever.
• Reply to specific message in chat - New - No response yet, but needs to avoid the specific UI mistakes that make threading in channels such a nightmare.
• Archive channels - On the Backlog - Over 3 years old, was "working on it" for 15 months, now on backlog.
• List users in channel - Working on it - Over 3 years old, "working on it" since April 2017.
• Move conversations - Working on it - Over 3 years old, "working on it" since October 2018.
• Custom emojis - On the backlog - Was "working on it" for a year, now demoted to the backlog.

Also, now that more of our work is coming in online, a proper fine-grained set of notification options is a higher priority than ever. That's been open for three years too.