An ability to change the color of the emojis
I'm a brown person, and I'd like to be able to choose a brown hand for the thumbs up sign and some of the face emoji's. The globe is a colorful place
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Anonymous
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Absolutely agree. As companies continues to focus on DE&I initiatives, I would love to see more inclusion possibilities within the Teams platform. If you can select a skin tone with Zoom, you should be able to with all Microsoft platforms.
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Jessica Taylor
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Microsoft this must be an easy fix! Please
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anon
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Seems like a simple idea with valuable outcome. Why delay?
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Joanie Mackowski
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Yes: there need to be more colors for these emojis. It's not because I need an emoji perfectly to represent what I actually look like; it's because continuing to pretend that humans have one "normal" skin color is a huge problem around the world. Don't make everyone identify with a single tan-yellowish skin. Honestly, I'd prefer a big range of colors, not necessarily "skin tones": let a person choose to have a purple thumbs up or green, etc.
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Anonymous
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the other platforms have this. Why the delay MS?
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Colina Wright
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As a BAME member of staff I tend not to use the "thumbs up" and other emojis in Teams regardless of whether I agree; I know it's simply an icon but if I can customise my emojis on my phone to reflect who I am, I'd like this to be the case when communicating across my organisation and beyond. It means something to me being in the minority at my Students' Union, why should I not be myself... it's sometimes the little things that matter. If "black lives matter" then perhaps this is a simple gesture you can amend to reflect that they matter to you too.
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Anonymous
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Most "black" people are NOT black. Most of us are brown. Therefore, does MS have brown emojis?
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Anonymous
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Agree! Microsoft needs to offer more skin tones to the platforms.
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Anonymous
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The hand emoji is yellow and yes it needs to be updated to include more skin colors including "white" Can we stick to that and not assume the yellow emoji = white?
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Sushil Raj
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Yes please add this skin color variant to represent us Brown and Black folks. Slack has done a great job with skin shades. Other apps as well.
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CB
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Please add skin color variants for Teams. It makes using the app and being in our communities much more welcoming.
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Jenny H
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saw a student use this at home while i am at school. looked to see how it was done. if it has been over a year since it has been proposed and there are only 190 votes, maybe not that many people want it. i am going to vote for it because i would like for it to BE an option.
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Anonymous
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This is a huge, huge, huge oversight. The assumption hat everyone in the workforce using MS Teams has to be white, disenfranchises millions of users and is a massive turnoff, the thought implications are endless and all are negative. I cannot see why on earth this was not picked up during development and has to be addressed urgently.
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Anonymous
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Agreed that this is so key in team communication. Slack features such options and it helps with morale.
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Anonymous
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This needs to be made to happen! My org is going to move to slack instead as this is so awkward and non-representative when our many key people in our organization are people of colour
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Anonymous
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Just doesn't make sense.. Even MS Swiftkey has color changing. We know change is fast and furious with the TEAMS team, but let's make this happen soon.
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Anonymous
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I’m a white teacher, looking at my class of mostly black or brown students, and it seems insulting that they have only one option.
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Everette W.
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This is a no-brainer. Make it so, Microsoft!
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JB
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I agree.
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Natalie
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I agree! Not sure how this went out to the mass population and no one thought about this? Is there no cultural diversity at Microsoft? This issue was flagged over 1 year ago and still nothing? How hard is it to add a few different skin tones? Shame on you Microsoft!