New capability announced for Microsoft Teams in all versions

Feb 18, 2021 19:12 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft Teams has become a must-have app for many of us, especially because the pandemic has turned our homes into the right place for everything, including remote working.

And of course, Teams allows us to stay in touch with workmates just like we’d be together, and this is the reason the adoption of the service has improved so much lately. Microsoft has recently revealed Teams has over 115 million daily active users, all thanks to a massive growth recorded throughout 2020.

Today, the company is announcing a new capability to pop out personal apps and tabs in Microsoft Teams on all platforms.

Popping out windows in Microsoft Teams is something that I do regularly, especially for chats, mostly because it’s easier to keep one contact I chat with in focus rather than having to open the full app every time. And Microsoft knows how important this is, so the popping out support has been updated to support both personal apps and tabs.

The new feature is available today for everybody

“There are many situations where we need to juggle multiple tools and resources to work through tasks. For example, maybe you need to reference some notes from your team’s shared OneNote pinned in your team channel while working through action items comings out of a recent meeting or perhaps you need talk through some open tasks from your Tasks personal app along with your daily standup chat following a sync with your team. These are just a couple common scenarios which popping out apps and tabs in multiple windows come in handy,” the company explains.

The new capabilities are available today for all Microsoft Teams users, and the company says more similar updates are on their way, though additional information would be shared closer to the launch date.