What’s New in Microsoft Teams | June 2020

What's not in Microsoft Teams yet - let's have a look through the top requests from UserVoice, all of which have over 10,000 votes, and some of which are over three years old.

• Show video for all people in a video meeting - New - Good progress with the 7x7 view covering most use cases
• Multiple accounts - Working on it- Over 3 years old, "working on it" for almost exactly 3 years.
• Multi-window for chats and more - Partially implemented - Over 3 years old, "working on it" since August 2018. Chats now can be popped out, but not other views. Despite being only partially implemented, this ticket was marked as "complete" and feedback disabled. Votes from 20,000+ of your users for the "and more" part have effectively been dumped in the bin. Please resurrect this ticket.
• Move a channel - On the backlog - Over 3 years old, "working on it" but then withdrawn.
• Reply to specific message in chat - On the backlog - No response yet, but needs to avoid the specific UI mistakes that make threading in channels such a nightmare.
• 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. Very disappointing that this did not come in as part of the "separate window" updated.
• Archive channels - On the Backlog - Over 3 years old, was "working on it" for 15 months, now on backlog.
• View or export list of user who attended a meeting - New, partially done - Only available during a meeting, but nice to see a useful feature being made available so fast.
• Breakout rooms - Working on it - New request rightly prioritised.
• Memory footprint and performance - Working on it - Over 3 years old but some progress happening.
• List users in channel - Working on it - Over 3 years old, "working on it" since April 2017.
• Delete private chats - On the backlog - Over 2 years old, apparently "finalising the design" but we've seen this before (see "Compact mode")
• Allow custom emoji - On the backlog - Over 3 years old, if implemented absolutely needs a "don't show emojis" option for the receiver.
• Move conversations - Working on it - Over 3 years old, "working on it" since October 2018.

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.