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Introducing a refreshed design, task chat, and more in Microsoft Planner

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AnavSilverman
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Feb 23, 2026
We’re excited to announce that a modernized user interface and new features are now rolling out to basic plans in both Planner in Teams and Planner for the web. The updated design offers enhanced nav...
Updated Feb 19, 2026
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JukkaNiiranen
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Feb 23, 2026

If you honestly want users to give feedback in the Microsoft Feedback Portal, it would be a good idea to provide updates to the feedback items. Currently, there are in total 1,555 feedback items. 6 of them have a non-default status (meaning not "Open"). That's 0.4% of all the feedback customers have submitted to you.

Yes, it happens with other products, too. Not a Planner specific problem. Yet according to Microsoft's own documentation, users can expect a response in the form of a status change.

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    Peter Mcdermott
    Iron Contributor
    Feb 24, 2026

    I agree with you wholeheartedly. I cannot stress how frustrating it is to be screaming into a void on feature requests that seem like table stakes in 2026 only to have them ignored.