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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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I wonder if these emojis were release by mistake. They look like someone designed them out of spite, or as a weird joke.
Agree they look unprofessional and idiotic.
I don't think 3D emojis can ever be accessible to people with visual impairments. Most 3D images look strange on a 2D background, and emojis in particular are not well suited to it because they are so small. The 3D Fluent Teams emojis have the added challenge of being difficult to interpret even if you can see them - they are creepy and don't evoke the emotions they are intended to evoke.
Microsoft has a Disability Answer Desk that addresses accessibility issues. You might want to try contacting them to ask that we be allowed to use high-contrast, 2D emojis on Teams for the sake of accessibility and inclusiveness in the workplace. The easiest solution would be for us to be allowed to choose the old emoji set, but even a new 2D set would be better than the new ones. My colleagues and I really don't feel comfortable with them and they could lead to workplace misunderstandings.
Here's a link to the accessibility site: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Accessibility/disability-answer-desk?activetab=contact-pivot%3aprimaryr9
You're not listening to the feedback, Microsoft. Don't put more lipstick on this "pig" (the new emojis). Revert. Revert. Revert. You've lost touch with the business world in favor of the pre-teens and bathroom humor. Example: We don't need 5 different "kiss" emojis in a business environment! Are you trying to get us more "face-time" with HR?
I think unfortunately Microsoft will not bring back the old emojis: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/77fa83ab-c319-ed11-b83e-000d3a4d92e4
Presumably they spent too much money to "invent" the fluent design emojis so they will not go back to the really great Skype emojis that are the best emojis of all messengers. Why not integrate a switch to let the user choose between nice emojis and new emojis?
Using Skype for nearly 19 years the day that Skype will change to the new emojis will be the day that I start using Whatsapp (which has silly emojis too). It will be a pain.
P.S.: I wish Microsoft would not have bought Apple shares in 1997 so we still had Windows 10 Mobile and Metro/Modern UI on all devices. Now we have Apple-droid UI on Windows 11.