TEAMS - mute by default when entering a meeting

Hello Microsoft!!

Please WAKE UP!! As everyone has pointed out this is an incredibly basic feature that all of your competitors have!

It is inexcusable that you have not added this after 2+ years since this topic was raised!!!!

What is wrong with you folks?

How can you not offer such an obvious option!

Allow us to MUTE the mic by default when we join a meeting or call! This is not rocket science!!

Thank you!

I agree that the mic should be on mute by default. People have enough to worry about when signing in for a meeting, they don't need to worry about accidentally saying something stupid because they forgot to mute the mic. BTW, Zoom mutes the mic by default. Teams already automatically mutes the mic if there are 5+ people already joined. I kind of get it that the thinking is that if only 4 people are in a meeting, then probably everyone will be talking, however I would rather have someone say "I think your on mute" than have sounds or voices accidentally be picked up.

@microsoft Fix this now!!! Why does this happen over and over for 25 years with MSFT? That is, a simple, effective feature or bug fix is ignored for years. It's almost like a badge of honor or inside joke at MSFT to see how long they can make a customer suffer.

Been a couple months...thought I'd add another ping/voice to say that this is a critical feature to implement.

Don't know MS release cycle but it needs to be faster than this. We are ~2 years into working remotely and still doesn't have this basic functionality.

+1. I want this feature as well.