Teams - Revert to Classic Emojis

Anonymous
2022-05-27T15:38:41+00:00

Greetings!

Microsoft Teams recently rolled out the Microsoft Fluent emoji style in Teams. This change altered all emojis and reactions across the platform and made them look incredibly displeasurable and unusual. In a business environment, I would venture to say the updated emojis are unusable due to the fact that they are so silly (for lack of a better word). I have thus far been unable to revert the emojis back to the way they were before this update; however, I would like to do this, as would my team. Is there any way to revert the emojis back to the way they were before this Microsoft Fluent emoji style update?

Thanks for any insight!

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-10-13T18:14:53+00:00

    I love working with Microsoft products: Word, Excel, Visio, Stream and Teams.

    I, too, in my personal life, vote with my dollars. In this case, Teams is my preferred platform. As far as their ideology, (thank you for the link), I think the simple emojis accomplished playfulness in the first place and that they wasted their money on this new version which is hard to decipher if you wear reading glasses and the mouths look bloody.

    I have not contributed any anger in this feed and haven't read much of that, but I haven't been keeping up with the latest comments.

    If they collect any stats on the number of times an emoji is used, I am guessing they will find a significant decrease. I just ignore them now.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-10-13T17:53:53+00:00

    No heart attack here. But thanks.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-10-13T17:49:14+00:00

    Fair enough. Maybe half of my coworkers dislike them; I haven't heard from the others, so they could be ambivalent.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-10-13T17:42:53+00:00

    And Microsoft: Please note how the use of one of the new Teams emoji would have absolutely killed the mood of the above post. Please facilitate communication rather than limiting it. Not everything can be said in a playful manner.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-10-13T17:40:11+00:00

    My sampling was not just from the thread. Colleagues and coworkers who also use Teams and are not on this thread same viewpoint. So the sampling in this thread pretty much matches others outside of the thread.

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