As we near the end of 2019, we can’t help but reflect on all of the incredible ways that Teams has evolved this past year, and how so many of our customers were able to use Teams to help them transfo...
Updated Aug 25, 2022
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What's still not new in Teams - compact mode. Here's what I wrote on UserVoice on the 1000-day anniversary back in November: Today is 1000 days since the original announcement on February 8, 2017 that Microsoft had acknowledged the need for a compact mode and were "Working on it". One thousand days. In that time, we've seen them claim that they have done user feedback assessments, prototyping, usability tests, incremental changes that improved the compactness of the default view (by a tiny amount), that it was "partially done", and then a series of staged backoffs admitting that no work had actually been done, to no work being planned, backtracking all the way to the design stage. One thousand days. Meanwhile, multiple users prototyped example layouts using CSS in the web client, and in one case even got a completely working version compactified. This took a couple of days. One thousand days. Meanwhile, for the actual developers, two and a half years have slipped by, and Teams is apparently no closer to a compact mode than it was back in February 2017. It's still one of the top user requests, and we're still being promised that it's coming soon. One thousand days. Think about that level of commitment to users' concerns. It's ridiculous.