A new update to Microsoft Teams might allow you to make the final move on your next call — but it could also cause you to seriously annoy everyone on your team.
The video conferencing service has officially launched a new feature that will allow chat participants to mention everyone in the group at once.
The new “Mention Everyone” feature is similar to how Microsoft Teams users can currently “mention” a specific person in a chat – only a whole level up as users will now be able to @mention “Everyone”.
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However, doing so will also mean that all chat participants will receive a notification, potentially causing a deafening wave of pings and alerts on various smart devices throughout the office.
In his post on official Microsoft 365 roadmap (opens in a new tab), the company says the new feature will “remove 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 rolling out now and is available to all Microsoft Teams users on Android, desktop, web, Mac, and iOS.
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. thing.
The company is reportedly also hard at work on a new version of the Teams app that will offer significant performance improvements, helping to save device battery life. The rewritten “Microsoft Teams 2.0” software is designed for modern machines, which means it should be more powerful, resulting in faster performance and lower battery consumption in laptops.
Microsoft claims that “Teams 2.0 will use half the memory of the same consumer account in Teams 1.0”, noting that reducing RAM and CPU usage could cause companies to issue more reduced hardware to some employees, seeing them save costs. End users should also be able to notice the resulting battery improvements when using the software.