Final October, Microsoft unveiled a redesigned chat and channels expertise in Groups. After testing this new expertise extensively beneath each personal and public preview applications with thousands and thousands of customers, Microsoft not too long ago introduced the final availability of this new expertise. It’s now out there to Groups customers for industrial customers and can be rolling out to prospects in Authorities Clouds and different clouds over the approaching weeks.

Noga Ronen, Senior Product Advertising Supervisor, Microsoft Groups at Microsoft, made the next remark concerning this new expertise:

“The brand new expertise is designed to be easy by default, enabling everybody to remain on high of what issues, and it’s highly effective on demand, permitting you to prepare data and talk your approach.”

This revamped expertise affords a number of new message filters, together with “Unread,” “Chat,” “Channels,” “Conferences,” and “Muted,” to assist customers simply triage their messages. Additionally, the brand new @point out view permits all messages directed to a person in a single interactive checklist. For customers who want extra customization, the brand new customized sections will permit them to prepare conversations from chats, channels, conferences, Groups bots, or AI brokers.

Microsoft can also be introducing a streamlined new message expertise that enables customers to ship a brand new message to each chats or channels from a single place.

Though this new expertise is enabled by default, Microsoft will not be forcing this new expertise on everybody. If required, customers may also select to view chat and channels individually as earlier than, see message previews, or show all channels in a single checklist.

Microsoft can also be providing a number of greatest practices tricks to take advantage of the brand new chat and channels expertise, you’ll be able to learn them right here. Microsoft additionally highlighted that extra enhancements, corresponding to threaded conversations, are coming quickly to Groups.