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New Teams: No notification badges in system tray
- Steven Collier - I'm not trying to be argumentative here, and don't get me wrong, I love Microsoft and I love Teams, but Windows' built-in notification system is used (almost universally) by (almost all) other apps, including Teams Personal. As I know you know, it's been a thing since before Windows 11. Saying that people aren't used to managing windows notifications doesn't really hold water, because it's a universal and well-documented thing on Windows.
In the Windows notifications scheme, I could control how the banner appeared, how it behaved, and how it sounded. You can't do that in the current setup.
But most importantly of all - under the new setup, notifications do not persist! If I walk away from my computer, and someone sends me a chat, the banner will pop up, sit for 5 seconds, and fade away, leaving NO trace whatsoever. In the Windows notification scheme, my little "alarm bell" icon would light up, and I could open the notification flyout to see my notifications. Now, you can't do that. Because Teams doesn't tie into Windows anymore, Teams notifications don't persist or even exist in the flyout. So if I step away, it could be quite a while before I see the notification.
This is why I consider this a negative. I'd love to see the data that leads to the assertion of "universally unpopular" because when I "Bing" around for "Teams Notifications" the only complaints I see are complaints about this current version, and how people don't like it. It is my opinion that Microsoft went too far in the wrong direction, and I echo the sentiment of others who state that this makes New Teams "not ready for prime time" yet.
GlenB The first versions of the new Teams client did use Windows notifications, and it was universally unpopular with test users, people really aren't used to/want to manage their windows notifications so ended up missing things.
If you use the browser version of Teams it will then have to use browser/windows notifications if you want to try it out.
In the Windows notifications scheme, I could control how the banner appeared, how it behaved, and how it sounded. You can't do that in the current setup.
But most importantly of all - under the new setup, notifications do not persist! If I walk away from my computer, and someone sends me a chat, the banner will pop up, sit for 5 seconds, and fade away, leaving NO trace whatsoever. In the Windows notification scheme, my little "alarm bell" icon would light up, and I could open the notification flyout to see my notifications. Now, you can't do that. Because Teams doesn't tie into Windows anymore, Teams notifications don't persist or even exist in the flyout. So if I step away, it could be quite a while before I see the notification.
This is why I consider this a negative. I'd love to see the data that leads to the assertion of "universally unpopular" because when I "Bing" around for "Teams Notifications" the only complaints I see are complaints about this current version, and how people don't like it. It is my opinion that Microsoft went too far in the wrong direction, and I echo the sentiment of others who state that this makes New Teams "not ready for prime time" yet.
GlenB I think the issue is that many people don't exploit the functionality of Window notifications, and have a frustrating experience with a weird mix of notifications they don't want and get confused by windows managed states like Do Not Disturb. They then report that Teams isn't working.
By all means raise a request and encourage people to vote for is at http://aka.ms/teamsfeedback
Maybe they'll bring back a toggle like they had with the previous client if this is a big issue to enough users. All I'm saying is that it was initially the plan to native Windows notifications for the new client, but lots of people complained.
- "initially the plan to native Windows notifications for the new client, but lots of people complained." IT'S CALLED *OPTIONS*. Is there some reason that large software companies cannot implement GRANULAR OPTIONS.
We have MS 365 GCC, still apparently not available.
This has gone waaaay off topic. The original issue was that the little Teams icon in the taskbar in NEW Teams does not show current status or any dots etc for message notifications (it seems to have been replaced by a tiny blue 'NEW' banner). The CLASSIC Teams used to do this. To drag this back on topic - with no ramblings about other unecessary subjects - why doesn't NEW Teams have this feature?! For me it is a deal breaker, as I am constantly missing messages, and cannot quickly check my status (available, DND, away etc). Really stupid of MS not to pull this functionality over from Classic Teams!
Yep, I agree with domstrongbow and that's how I found this convo. My new Teams taskbar pin just says New instead of having the status bar light that can change. This is so key to my knowing my status on Teams to others, when I deep dive into paper work. It seems illogical that anyone would care for the word New to be there as it serves no function. Can the status bar lights please be brought back? I shudder to think sometimes how software upgrades are done where obvious functionalities like this are deprecated.
