What’s New in Microsoft Teams | May 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 - 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 - Partially implemented - Over 3 years old, "working on it" since August 2018. Chats now can be popped out, but not other views. I was quite excited that this would also implement the legendary "compact mode" but no. The window is a bit smaller due to removing the sidebar and top bar, but still uses the giant chat bubbles and cannot be shrunk below a globally-set minimum size. If I make it wider, after a point it decides that wider gutters are what I want, not more information. These problems could have been avoided if, like we asked, you showed us what the design was early in the process.
• Move a channel - On the backlog - Over 3 years old, "working on it" but then withdrawn.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.
• 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.
• Move conversations - Working on it - Over 3 years old, "working on it" since October 2018.
• Breakout rooms - Working on it - New request rightly prioritised.

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.