Teams Chat - copy/paste

If this was designed as a step toward more secure information, they should at the very least allow users and/or organization decide if they want this feature enabled or not.

And by the way, we can still alter message content by taking a screen capture and altering the message in MSPaint. Will they also remove access to take screen captures of Teams chat windows now?

Also another Take on this:

It is ridiculous that all our data ends up in some AI Training set and is analyzed to death for some obscure ad revenue. But we have to beg our all so mighty MS Overlords if they are so kind and grateful so such they allow us to copy a tiny bit for our own records. About exporting all the messages into a tool that allows us to cross reference things, or god forbid, to bridge it with other chat networks we can't even think about in the current state of affairs.

That is what the Open Source people warned us about all along.

In the end: We have the choice. If our company forces us to use it. Fine. Its communicated which impact this has on our work. Evaluations are made to change it for our internal communication in the Team. With my private contacts I am not using Teams anymore. Its just to inconvenient with this limitation.

I don't copy and paste from Teams much, but when I do, I want to make a record of a conversation for technical purposes. It is absolutely ridiculous to not save the names and timestamps of the people involved in a conversation when you cut and paste. The names of the people talking are the delimiters of what is a "conversation" between people. I can't imagine why such a stupid decision was made at Microsoft to remove the ability to keep this information. It is/was an idiotic decision. Please fix. Please fix. Calling the persons making the discussion "Metadata" is absurd. While a programmer may refer to it as Metadata since it is not the actual text, it is clearly not "Metadata" from the point of something being a conversation. It is like someone taking a selfie picture, but removing the actual person from the photo because they were also the photographer and thus should be removed since it is "metadata" tag. (Or, if you took a picture of a sign saying Columbus Ohio, and removing the name on the sign because it was "metadata".) Please programmers at Microsoft, don't try to be software smart but practically stupid. Capturing the record of a conversation should almost always include the names of the people doing the conversation to be useful and pretty much the only reason to not include those names is if you are trying to anonymize them. Even in the latter case, you would substitute names (e.g. person A, person B) to track multiple entities weighing in, and that anonymizing should be left to the person after capturing the conversation.

I too want to comment that this removal of an existing functionality/feature should have been defined as configurable to those supposed users that didn't want the clutter. I want the name and date/timestamps back when I copy chat threads for documentation purposes into Jira. I would have preferred to have just removed the likes and reactions when copying and pasting but once again that should have been configurable option in my opinion. Please get this to appropriate resources to address.

+1 on this issue also - was a useful feature!