If you've been worrying about making the move from Microsoft Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams, then it might put your mind at rest to know just how devoted this tech giant is to satisfying its customers. Microsoft has been reaching out to companies far and wide, asking them to offer their insights and feedback into what a collaboration tool should be able to accomplish.
Based on the responses they've received from their customers, Microsoft has continued to add new and improved capabilities to the system to make Teams an even more powerful hub of collaboration and communication.
The "Chat" Updates
As instant chat becomes the preferred solution for quick communication between company teams, Microsoft has delivered a range of chat functionality solutions for Teams customers. For instance, you can now share the chat history you've built up with one participant with someone new, so you don't have to repeat yourself as often - saving a great deal of time and productivity in the workplace.
What's more, in addition to being able to reference someone in a group chat, you can also "@mention" someone in a one-on-one conversation, and that person will receive a notification in their activity feed - making it easier to get almost anyone's attention.
Users can also "quick reply" to the message notifications they get. All you need to do is click on "reply" when the notification pops up and you can send back a response of up to 1,000 characters. What's more, to keep conversations focused, users will be able to mute certain chats, putting messages on hold for a while. Though they'll still get the messages in that chat, they simply won't get the alerts.
