Being heard in Microsoft Teams can be a lot easier (and a lot louder) with a new update.
The video conferencing service has announced that it is working on a new feature that will allow chat participants to mention everyone in a group at once.
Similar to how users can currently “@mention” a specific person in a chat, Microsoft Teams users will now be able to @mention “Everyone”. This means that all chat participants will receive a notification, which means everyone will get a nudge, but it will also lead to a potentially deafening cacophony of pings and alerts on devices all over the office.
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In his post on official Microsoft 365 roadmap (opens in a new tab), the company says the new feature will be “removing the hassle of mentioning each person’s name one at a time or leaving someone out.” How true (or disturbing) this may turn out to be, only time will tell.
This feature seems to take inspiration from Microsoft Teams’ big rival, Slack, which already allows chat participants to mention everyone in the chat by typing “@here”.
The new add-on is currently listed as “in development”, but its expected general availability date is December 2022, so users shouldn’t wait too long. Microsoft says that once launched, the feature will be available to all Android, desktop, web, Mac, and iOS users.
This news is the latest update to the Microsoft Teams chat feature as the company wants the platform to be an all-in-one messaging offering for users around the world.
This includes a fix that will allow users to follow full chat threads when clicking on message search results. The update means that when users search for a chat message in Microsoft Teams and click on the message result, they are taken to a view that contains the full thread containing the desired message, not just a single line of text as before. suitcase.
It also recently enabled the linking of consumer and business accounts, allowing corporate users to start chats and meetings with clients and partners who can use their personal Teams login.