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
    2020-04-07T18:40:44+00:00

    I am moving over from skype (which I love)  with skype I always had the IM open in a separate screen as we use it for primary communication amongst my team and team mates and for files we has separate tabs from the SharePoint files.   The idea of teams having everything in one place is super handy and I like the app and will eventually get used to it but I while working in other areas I am missing chats that are coming in.  many are time determinate.    If I could have the chat tab in a separate window that would be awesome and the work flow would be far better.  I have like mentioned other places on the net, opened a separate teams occurrence in a separate browser.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-04-08T20:39:18+00:00

    Multiple windows is essential at this point. Currently, multitasking with Teams is impossible. Please add this functionality immediately to sustain your users. 

    Thank you

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-04-22T18:15:21+00:00

    A windows product without windows function??  not reasonable or acceptable.

    if TEAMs is a single source of efficiency, we NEED to be able to mulitask.   its extremely frustrating to have shut down a document to respond to a chat.

    when is this function coming??

    Thank you.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-04-27T09:24:38+00:00

    I swear this is the dumbest fudging shiet I've seen in a long-äss time. It's 2020, and a web-based app doesn't support multiple-fudging-tabs. We're minimizing functionality to that of mobile devices. What the fudge is going on Microsoft? This behavior is actively sabotaging my productivity and it's incredibly annoying.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-04-29T12:11:11+00:00

    The current design is really problematic, especially if you want to multi-task during a call.

    Anyone who as ever used it can see this.

    How has this not been fixed yet? (at least not on Mac)

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