From PC World: Microsoft is redesigning its Teams chat interface — in a way that mimics the organization of, say, PCWorld’s home page.
Microsoft said Monday that it will begin testing a new Teams interface in November, optionally collapsing various channels, teams, and chat options into a single feed. Customers with access to the Teams public preview will be able to try out this new interface next month, Microsoft said today.
On the surface, the new chat interface appears similar to how PCWorld organizes our latest articles. What we call a “crawl” of articles progresses down the PCWorld home page, mixing in news, tips, how-tos, reviews, and more. If you want to see reviews and only reviews, you can visit our reviews page. Otherwise, everything is combined inside a single column of information.
The new Teams interface takes this approach, but also builds upon it further. While the new chat interface combines channels, teams, and private chats, you can opt into this new approach, or keep things the way they are. You can also treat particular categories as filters, so that you’ll only see channel messages or “@” mentions in the main interface. You can also keep chats and channels in separate interfaces, too.
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