Multi-Window Chat is a new Microsoft Teams feature which enables users to multitask more efficiently by popping out their chat conversations into separate Windows much like was possible in Skype for Business and Lync before.
Microsoft announced this was rolling out this month (April) as part of a wave of updates announced on their 3rd “birthday”.
Why we need it (and we so do)!
Pop out chat (video and others are coming soon too) has been one of the most requested features in Teams since when enaged in multiple chats, is can be a little cumbersome (especially now with us all working from home) to effectively to monitor and manage chats across multiple teams or groups since you can’t currently have these chats in separate Windows.
This new pop-out feature helps you overcome this challenge, allowing you to “pop out” chats your Teams’ chat in a separate window meaning you can keep important conversations and chats going while you are in a meeting or working elsewhere in Teams without loosing context.
How it works.
As with most things in #MicrosoftTeams there’s a couple of ways users can pop-out their conversations:
- The simplest – double click on the display picture (avatar) of the person whose chat you want to pop-out
- Click “Pop out chat” from the context menu for a chat that is listed in the chat list
- Click the ‘pop out’ button in the top-right corner of the chat header.
- For those that prefer the command prompt, use the slash command /pop
Available now..?
Almost.. At the time of writing, I’ve seen tweets that some of my customers and friends are seeing this already as of today (Friday 24th April) mine hasn’t updated yet…
Keep hitting the “check for updates”!