Collaboration is a critical part of virtual work. At Microsoft, we’ve seen firsthand that the way people work together has fundamentally changed over the past year. More people are using Microsoft 36...
Updated Jun 01, 2021
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Announcing a more intuitive sharing experience across Microsoft 365 for better collaboration
StephenRice thank you for listening 🙂 - and let me be clear: I'd like to see these additions in both SharePoint and Teams.
Making the experience of working with files smooth in Teams is crucial to adoption for us, as we, like so many others, are coming from a world of old-fashioned file shares and working with file explorer. I know that it is perhaps the least "sexy" part of Teams, but we're not getting people to look at the rest of the features, when they are preoccupied with seeing the hurdles. You could say, it's like a Maslows pyramid of Teams adoption 🙂 - Files are at the bottom.
Another example of making it easy to share (from Teams), would be the ability to drag and drop (one or more) files from Teams to Outlook (or the desktop). I realize it isn't easy to do, when it's essentially a web page we're looking at, and that many others have requested it, but never miss a chance to bring it up, right? 🙂