Feb 14 2022 08:39 AM
Microsoft is releasing the new Fluent Emojis update, refreshing 1800+ emojis. The new emojis bring a modern and delightful new version of the emojis we use every day. Whether for work, school, or life, the new emojis will bring the power of fun and play into every message or reaction!
Users will see a new take on most of the previous Teams emojis, along with some new picks! All skintone-enabled emojis will continue to have 6 skintone options.
These are the specific changes:
For more background on the Fluent Emojis, feel free to read this blog post from our Fluent Design team! An Emoji For Your Thoughts. Microsoft’s new emojis | by Microsoft Design | Microsoft Design | Medium
Fluent emojs in the new emoji picker:
A preview of many of the new emojis:
Available now on Desktop, Web, Mobile, and Meetings.
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Note: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below.
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For a history of features in the Office and Teams public previews, see Release Notes Current Channel (Preview) - Office release notes | Microsoft Docs.
Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback.
Thank you,
Preview Team, @Jason_Schumacher
Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft Teams
Jun 30 2022 04:05 AM - edited Jun 30 2022 04:16 AM
For everyone dissatisfied with the new, static, flat/2D Fluent emojis shipped with Windows 11, there's an easy way to replace the "Segoe UI Emoji" font in your C:\Windows\Fonts folder with version 1.31 (shipped with an early version of Windows 11, featuring updated versions of Unicode 13.0 emojis, however still with the old Modern design, with a thick black outline).
I wrote some posts about this on Reddit.
Read a wee bit more about the various versions of the "Segoe UI Emoji" (and download 'em too) here.
Learn how to properly install them here.
Note: These instructions refer to Windows' own global emoji support. I don't use Microsoft Teams very much, and I'm not sure at all if it relies on the OS's font files or if somehow it has its own assets and stuff; it is possible that, after replacing the newer Fluent ones with the older Modern ones (for example, shown in Windows' emoji picker), they could still appear in many places in Teams -- in particular the animated emojis, which were heavily advertised as one of the highlights of then upcoming Windows 11 (and that promise never came to fruition, being exclusive to Teams, ugh) and which have no direct equivalent anywhere in Windows 10's old apps.
Jul 20 2022 03:11 AM
Jul 20 2022 05:27 AM
Dear god why though..?
I mean - little kids might love 'em, but little kids are hardly the target audience for a business product like Office 365 and Microsoft Teams..
They are just soooo over the top cutesy - I find them pretty vomitous really.
I quite like that they move, but why oh why are they so sickeningly babyish on a business product?
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Jul 26 2022 06:06 AM
I don't know how much feedback you have had on these, but for a UK business, these are really unusable - they are juvenile, too loud, and simply not appropriate for use in a business setting.
I have four different teams accounts across my own businesses and partners. Two have been moved to the new emojis and two are still using the classic ones. Where the new ones have been introduced, we've simply stopped using emojis in communications (or we ctrl-z to revert to a simple punctuation emoticon before sending messages).
Please reconsider this rollout, and at least leave us with the option of sticking with classic emojis.
Jul 28 2022 10:55 PM
Jul 29 2022 12:22 AM
Jul 29 2022 01:02 AM - edited Jul 29 2022 01:05 AM
Please rollback to the old Design, the new ones are unusable in an work environment.
Jul 29 2022 02:50 AM
Jul 29 2022 09:08 AM
These new emojis are horrendous. Please give us the chance to revert back to the previous version. I am not alone in this opinion. Thousands of your customers are screaming at you to change this, not including the ones that don't take the time to voice their opinion here.
Everyone, please take a moment and upvote/comment on these suggestions. If MS is listening, maybe they will revert this madness:
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/71207f98-65bb-ec11-a81b-000d3a03dba2
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/b95cc4bd-2488-ec11-a81b-0022484c51ef
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/86bdb2e3-5158-ec11-a819-6045bd7eb08a
Jul 29 2022 12:33 PM
Please revert back. Are ya’ll working with Instagram on how to ruin UX unilaterally?
Aug 01 2022 12:41 AM - edited Aug 01 2022 01:22 AM
Just to chime in here:
Everyone at my company either dislikes, actively ridicules or outright hates the new designs.
They are:
1. Too small for the default Teams size to be easily readable without straining your eyes
2. Too busy for their size to be easily discernible at a glance
3. Not fitted to Teams' flat~ish design with their bottom-lit 3D style
4. Too cartoony for a professional setting
And honestly. WHY does the (thinking) emoji look like it's picking its nose? Who approved this?
I am a UI/UX coder and I can't even. Please revert or give options.
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