Teams: Disable New Feature Popups?

Anonymous
2023-12-08T17:31:10+00:00

How do I disable ALL popups that announce new features in Teams. You know, the ones with the cheap clipart drawings and redundant announcements. It is infuriating when I am trying to send a message to a colleague and interrupted by a random popup telling me to try a new feature that I'm already aware of and is absolutely useless to me. It hijacks my typing and it's got to go.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-09-24T12:33:56+00:00

    What the other posters said, this needs to be addressed. It's really, really, distracting.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-09-12T17:11:46+00:00

    If the pop-ups continue to be a significant disruption, reach out to your organization's IT department for help they might have policies or tools in place that could help manage these type of interruptions

    Ask your IT department to move to Slack. Problem solved.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-08-21T15:17:42+00:00

    Agreed. Microsoft's marketing has way too much impact on their products and productivity. Again, if MS would focus less on "new features" and more on fixing current issues, it would be a better approach for us all.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-08-21T15:05:21+00:00

    They are feature announcements and cannot be disabled.

    This approach is unacceptable. If you want to highlight new features, do it in a single popup that appears only after an update, or upon switching to the new version. The popups are incredibly disruptive.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-08-08T20:21:57+00:00

    Thank you for your reply. I had forgotten how annoying Clippy was. To your point, at least we could disable that "feature". The "new" Teams, the "new" Outlook ... huge steps backward. Microsoft needs to stop focusing on new "features" and fix the versions that are currently in place. Congrats once again Microsoft!

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