This Microsoft Teams update will help you cut through all the nonsense
New Microsoft Teams chat filters are designed to to help you focus
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Finding the right chats inMicrosoft Teamswill soon be a lot easier thanks to a new update that looks to help users focus better.
Thevideo conferencingtool is adding new filters within the Chat app on Teams that will remove meeting chats and chats with bots, giving users a much more streamlined look at their conversations.
According to the officialMicrosoft 365 roadmapentry, the filter will work across group chats as well as one on one conversations, helping users stay focused on the messages that matter.
Microsoft Teams chat filters
The feature is still in development, but the roadmap has noted a launch date of March 2022, meaning it should arrive in the next few weeks, adding it will be available to allMicrosoftTeams users across web and Mac devices.
Microsoft has been working hard to make Teams an integral part of workers' everyday lives, adding a wealth of new features and updates to the platform to encouragehybrid working.
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This includes the ability topin messages in Microsoft Teams, much like in Slack or Telegram, allowing users to attach a specific message to the top of the channel so that it’s always visible to other participants, regardless of the number of messages that came afterwards.
The most recent Microsoft financial reports found that Teams now boastsover 270 million monthly active users (MAUs), up from the 250 million MAUs that the company reported just six months ago.
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And recent data collected by software firm StarLeaf found almost all (97%) businesses say that video conferencing tools such as Zoom, Webex and Microsoft Teams are now essential to their operations. More than half (57%) of businesses surveyed said their companywould not be able to operatefor more than an hour without access to their communications tools, while 27% admitted they would struggle to function for even 30 minutes.
Mike Moore is Deputy Editor at TechRadar Pro. He has worked as a B2B and B2C tech journalist for nearly a decade, including at one of the UK’s leading national newspapers and fellow Future title ITProPortal, and when he’s not keeping track of all the latest enterprise and workplace trends, can most likely be found watching, following or taking part in some kind of sport.
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