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Old Teams would open up on the Chat view panel whenever I started it.
New Teams always opens in the Teams view panel when i start it.
I can find no setting to pick which view panel should open when the program is started.
To be clear, I do have the program set to keep running, and when i open it from the dock, it will open in whatever the last view i had open was. The problem is on fresh starts of the program, I can't force it to always start in the Chat view.
Is there a registry change or something that can be made to force the program to always open in the Chat view (or to set any view as default for that matter)?
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It's funny in a ridiculous way that you want it to open in CHAT and it opens in TEAMS while I want it to open in TEAMS and it opens in CHAT. So the fact that they took away the ability to chose how it behaves when opening is even more screwed up because it seems to be random on what it decides to open for each person....
Microsoft, please give us back the option to use the interface how we prefer, not you guessing how the user wants to work...
Thank you, annoyed user of many 'new' 'enhanced' Microsoft products.
Exactly. The developers don't seem to get this. Give us options!
@Microsoft - is there an update on this issue? Users like myself would like to open NEW TEAMS to a particular area (Activity, Chat, Assignments, Calendar, Calls, etc, etc, etc). In my case, chat. But no, it opens in TEAMS which I never use at all.
We had the option with CLASSIC TEAMS, now it's gone in NEW TEAMS. Since this NEW TEAMS is forced, please do not remove any features on the old version? Perhaps get a consensus from 1,000 users prior to making a change?
Thanks in advance.
Isn't it strange how it does open on Chat for some people? I wonder what's different in their settings to those that open to Teams? I would like it to open to Chat but get Teams? Someone mentioned that you can select Teams for the default Chat option, maybe that's relevant? Does anyone know how to do that? Maybe it's to do with the device settings rather than those in Teams?
Totally agree, also new teams crashes constantly on me
Never with end users in mind