What’s new in Microsoft Teams – the Enterprise Connect feature round up

Great new Features - but we need more to make this world class

You say to add suggestions in the user voice, but that site is so poorly curated, it is impossible to find the feature requests that are already posted, and new suggestions are getting no attention.

So here it is:  Make the online meetings work like Zoom!!!  

- Allow more than 4 video feeds to be displayed during a meeting. Product is worthless without this just like Skype4B was with video limitations. And NO, making the active speaker suddenly show video doesn't work when you have people who never speak during a meeting, but you want their video to see them paying attention or their reactions or a thumbs up/down voting.

- Allow the ability to join a meeting with NO audio at all.  So if people in the same room join from their laptops so they can see a presentation or all be on video to because we don't have fancy monitors and cameras hanging off every wall of our office, you don't get the feedback problem until everyone mutes their devices.

- Allow the meeting window to "float" over your other windows when minimized so you can multi-task and still have meeting context of what is presented or who is talking on video. (Skype4B does this)

- Allow the ability to combine your Teams meeting instance with an instance of your dialed in phone session by hitting #xx#  (xx is your session id) on your dialed in line so your voice session is combined with your Teams & meeting session. (Yes you could call yourself back, but now Teams meeting is paying for the call instead of the user utilizing their free long distance.

- Have a pop up during meeting scheduling (like Zoom) to select what other phone numbers you want in the meeting invite to have embedded in the invite, for international and toll free options that aren't standard on your profile.  Why?  Because if you don't have internet and are accessing the meeting from your cell phone, you cant click the link to get alternate dial-in numbers.  (This is a common problem for international travelers who do not have international data plans!!!!)

- Have the meeting invite include a plain text dial string like +15551212,,12345678# instead of it being a hyper link. (Skype4B does this and does Zoom).  The hyperlink looks like garbage in a non-html calendar like the default cal app on Android and Iphones.

- Allow the video to be moved to different areas of the screen (top, bottom, side)  video at the bottom, makes people not have eye contact with their camera.  And being able to change the video views, size and location is highly desirable.

OK you get it... make it work as well as ZOOM!