When I try to chat w/someone in Skype that isn't at work, it'll tell me that they are unavailable. It says, [name of person] can't receive IMs right now. Status is unavailable or offline.

Teams doesn't seem to tell you anyone's status reliably.

In corporate settings, still allow me to be choose a friendly display name (but keep all the corporate **** attached to my profile). Or at least allow me to truncate my name to First and Last Initial, e.g., Bill J. or Sarah B.

There seems to be no way to view all available users. Under Chat there is Recent and Suggested - would be great if there was also an option for "All".

Sometimes we need to ask something to a person who is not member of the team. It could be vey helpful if we can mention a person on a conversation, that person could read and answer the message but not see anything else.

If there is it's not easy to find!

Seeing all of your ongoing conversations on the left hand side of the screen would be helpful so you dont have to search between convos

When I logout, I want to all of MS Teams to close.
I don't want that purple square in the middle of my screen.
I don't use MS Teams very often, so I don't want it on my screen when I'm presenting.
If I'm not using it, I don't think I need to login - just to clear my screen.

I am on vacation for a week it would be great to set a master out of office notification for all members to see in any channel the time for being out etc.

Post dates of MS responses on search. When I filter topics I would like to see when the last entry was without going into the topic. When MS says "Working on It" I would like to see how long they've been working on it without having to open the each topic.

Hi Suphatra -

Just checking on this on-going known issue.

The last update I can find is from June, where you mentioned it was going through testing/validation.

Has anything changed since then?

Thanks for your on-going help getting this issue addressed.

The interface and user experience, they both feel cluttered, static, structured: Both have been designed by and for left-side-brainers. Try to make it more fluid, clear, cheerful, actually atractive to creative people as well. There are no customization options in the desktop app, and colors are too dark. Bigger icons; and icons for the chanels as well, not just text. Thos vertical panels separate the areas, but try a better distribution. At the end, looks like somebody tried to revive messenger from the 00s

user should be able to see his own account info