Multiple windows for MS Teams?

Anonymous
2019-10-10T14:11:14+00:00

Why doesn't MS Teams support multiple windows?  It stands to reason that if you are on multiple chats, editing a file, and trying to join a meeting, you don't want to leave each ongoing action behind to go to the next, and shuffle around try to find where you left off in each section later.  Even separate windows for chat would be a huge help, or allowing a meeting to launch a new window outside of Teams and leave whatever you were working on in the original window.  Most people use multiple windows and multiple monitors to multi-task, and I'm surprised that the only way Teams seems to allow this is to run some of your windows out of a browser?  Is there help coming to make this a more productive tool?  This feels like a downgrade from Skye for Business...

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-07-13T20:24:34+00:00

    Agreed, @cringyamv. Microsoft doesn't seem to understand what we're asking for, although I don't know how to ask it any more plainly. All we want is the ability to open multiple windows from anywhere in the program, not just a chat within a live conference. Right click, open in new window.... basic Microsoft functionality in every other program! Why can't we get that with Teams?

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-05-14T02:59:53+00:00

    Get on it, Microsoft. It's important. Having only one Teams window open at a time hinders everybody's workflow.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-02-19T15:24:21+00:00

    I have found that simply adding multiple documents etc. as tabs on the screen of MS Teams cuts down locating time considerably.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-06-05T11:35:22+00:00

    For God Sake, you still haven't fixed this. Its Just basic quality of life issues. your telling us to just use a workaround its been a year. Microsoft fix this.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-06-26T16:57:33+00:00

    Indeed, it is cumbersome for example to open a file into the Teams environment, and then you just go to answer something in the chat, and sometimes the doc is gone, or when going back the screen is blank and you have to wait until de doc kind of loads again.

    Docs should at least open in a separate "tab" or something similar.

    Same with calls, no way to go back to another chat or see the files on any channel.

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