We missed a week of updates to the Microsoft 365 Roadmap site last weekend. The reason was that your humble author of this feature was located in the middle of Hurricane Helene when it hit in late September. Things are slowly getting back to normal, so let’s look at the updates on the site from the past seven days.
The roadmap says Microsoft Teams will add some new features to chat in Town Hall live events in November for desktop, iOS and Android:
Previously, at a town hall, only presenters and organizers could chat with each other. With this new update, attendees, presenters and organizers can now chat together during a town hall using the new Event Chat feature. Presenters and organizers can still chat privately during the town hall as well.
In December, Teams for desktop and Mac will include some improvements to Microsoft List links:
Microsoft Lists links in Teams, including list item links and form links, now expand when shared in Teams messages, making them easier to find and access in Teams messages and inside the shared tab in chats.
In December, Teams for all supported platforms will also get some new moderator features:
Allows moderators to answer questions from specific participants without showing the answer to the other participants. This feature can be useful for sensitive questions, personal inquiries, or follow-up discussions that are not intended to be broadcast to the entire audience.
For people using the new Outlook for Windows, Microsoft will add some improvements to People modules sometime in February 2025:
In the new Outlook for Windows, the People module offers a streamlined contact interface with a single view of each person, automatically linking duplicates and enriching them with organizational profiles.
Outlook for Windows and the web will also add four new themes sometime in November.
Finally, the Edge web browser will get some new settings improvements in December:
Edge Settings migrates to WebUI2 to increase page responsiveness and introduces a number of minor visual and content upgrades to improve overall usability and usability. This includes optimizing for concise wording of individual settings, simplifying the number of pages and reorganizing content and creating a cohesive user interface.
That’s it for our weekly look at the Microsoft 365 Roadmap updates. Barring another natural disaster, we’ll be back next Sunday with another installment.