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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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Way too many separate windows now... At least have the option to turn off the new meeting experience if we don't want to use it.
Oh, c'mon. Another MS rush-developed, resource-hungry, and underperformed product. You crippled classic Skype to force using another underdeveloped product. Obviously, someone erased Your memory, what every basic product must have, to be usable. Sorry, the development team and Your SW architects act like a bunch of teenagers and maybe is time someone tells You that fact. Do something. Users begging for functionality, but obviously, You are unable to deliver solutions for users. It's better for You playing with yourself obviously and constantly bother customers with underperformed hollow UX changes.
Out of all the currently opened threads, I think this one is the one that sums it up the best :
as it's not mentioning the need for "multiple chat", with the risk that it gets simply disregarded by the dev.
Hopefully this thread is still getting some traffic through the search engines - if all unhappy people could align on upvoting one request (like this one above), that might help.
If that (or any similar request) never gets upvoted, I'll really start wondering what I'm doing on this app...
UserVoice forums are generally a bit of a mess, with the same suggestion getting multiple threads, but this one is ridiculous.
Here is the most voted thread:
As you can see, the request was for "chats and more" and it got over 21,000 votes. Microsoft implemented the ability to pop out chats (not teams posts), and marked it complete. I'd bet that thousands of those votes were from users who wanted other tabs to be able to become separate windows, not just chats. There are pages of comments on that thread since it was marked "complete" clamoring for more options for multiple windows.
Then there's this pop out meeting thread, which garnered over 1,200 votes and got implemented:
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103/suggestions/37160077
Now, however, we are stuck with several threads asking for more complete multiple window support, and none have reached even 200 votes:
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/38474776-multiple-windows
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/37647652-multiple-windows
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/37647652-multiple-windows
. . . and a few others.
Is there a way to address this in UserVoice? I would guess that moderators there don't pay attention to comments or starting a new thread asking them to combine threads. The issue with 21,000 votes for "chat and more" is the most egregious. If half of those people wanted "and more", this idea should be on the first page of the "Top Ideas" now.
I am not sure, what tells more about the capabilities of Microsoft. That the issue from 2019 is still not solved or that the link to the vote to get this thing solved is broken.
Guys, pls get your homework done. There are people out there that want to work with your solutions
I found a link with a place to vote: