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A little over a year ago (1 year and almost 3 months) you released the Teams Linux client. Since then not many features have been added, even features that used to be there have been removed!! The client has also never made it out of preview status.
I would be interested to know when we can expect a full featured client.
A month a ago we had 3,410 votes on this UserVoice (https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/40324324-keep-the-linux-client-up-to-date-with-the-latest-f), meanwhile there are 3,874 voices and still no comment from Microsoft. It's just frustrating and slowly but surely it's getting ridiculous.
In addition, @Marian Javorka - MSFT where is the roadmap?
Update: over 4,020 votes
Update 2021/01/25: over 4,100 votes
We are still waiting for any response from dev level
Update 2021/01/28: Over 4,160 votes and 699 comments
Still no response from dev level.
Keep it up @Anonymous maybe we get some response
Update 2021/02/03: 4,200 votes and 710 comments
@Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 7 days ago, nothing happened so far.
Update 2021/02/12: over 4,250 votes and 729 comments.
@Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 15 days ago, nothing happened so far.
Update 2021/02/18: 4,300 votes and 743 comments
@Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 21 days ago, nothing happened so far.
Update 2021/02/25: 4,350 votes and 751 comments
@Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 27 days ago, until now no effects.
Even though they released a new Teams Insiders version 1.4.00.4855 yesterday it doesn't contain any new feature. We are still missing:
I have no idea what they have been working on for the last 3 months but I don't see any improvments.
Update 2021/03/02: 4,400 votes and 764 comments
@Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 32 days ago, until now no effects.
Even though they released a new Teams Insiders version 1.4.00.4855 it doesn't contain any new feature. We are still missing:
I have no idea what they have been working on for the last 3 months but I don't see any improvments.
Update 2021/03/04: more than 4,450 votes and 772 comments
@Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 34 days ago (that is ridiculous), until now no effects.
Even though they released a new Teams Insiders version 1.4.00.4855 it doesn't contain any new feature. We are still missing:
I have no idea what they have been working on for the last 3 months but I don't see any improvments.
Update 2021/03/09: more than 4,500 votes and 782 comments
@Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 38 days ago (that is ridiculous), until now nothing changed.
Even though they released a new Teams version 1.4.00.4855 it doesn't contain any new feature. We are still missing:
For one day we had request control feature, but again it got removed like they did with the 3x3 grid. I have no idea what they have been working on for the last 3 months but I don't see any improvments. Essential features which were working fine just getting removed for no reasons.
Update 2021/03/10: more than 4,550 votes and 786 comments
@Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 39 days ago (that is ridiculous), until now nothing changed.
Even though they released a new Teams version 1.4.00.4855 it doesn't contain any new feature. We are still missing:
For one day we had request control feature, but again it got removed like they did with the 3x3 grid. I have no idea what they have been working on for the last 3 months but I don't see any improvments. Essential features that worked fine were simply removed for no reasons.
Fun fact, instead of delivering improvments the development team breaks features now.
Update 2021/03/16: more than 4,600 votes and 787 comments
@Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 44 days ago (that is ridiculous), until now nothing changed.
Even though they released a new Teams version 1.4.00.4855 it doesn't contain any new feature. We are still missing:
For one day we had request control feature, but again it got removed like they did with the 3x3 grid. I have no idea what they have been working on for the last 3 months but I don't see any improvments. Essential features that worked fine were simply removed for no reasons.
Fun fact, instead of delivering improvments the development team breaks features now.
Update 2021/03/19: more than 4,650 votes and 790 comments
@Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 47 days ago (that is ridiculous), until now nothing changed.
Even though they released a new Teams version 1.4.00.4855 it doesn't contain any new feature. We are still missing:
For one day we had request control feature, but again it got removed like they did with the 3x3 grid. I have no idea what they have been working on for the last 3 months but I don't see any improvments. Essential features that worked fine were simply removed for no reasons.
Fun fact, instead of delivering improvments the development team breaks features now.
Update 2021/03/24: more than 4,700 votes and 795 comments
@Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 51 days ago (that is ridiculous), until now nothing changed.
Even though they released a new Teams version 1.4.00.4855 it doesn't contain any new feature. We are still missing:
For one day we had request control feature, but again it got removed like they did with the 3x3 grid. I have no idea what they have been working on for the last 3 months but I don't see any improvments. Essential features that worked fine were simply removed for no reasons.
Fun fact, instead of delivering improvments the development team breaks features now.
Update 2021/03/30: more than 4,750 votes and 807 comments
@Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 56 days ago (that is ridiculous), until now nothing changed.
Even though they released a new Teams version 1.4.00.7556 it doesn't contain any new feature. We are still missing:
Update 2021/04/13: more than 4,850 votes and 816 comments
@Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 70 days ago (that is ridiculous), until now nothing changed.
We are still missing:
Update 2021/04/19: more than 4,900 votes and 820 comments
@Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 76 days ago (that is ridiculous), until now nothing changed.
We are still missing:
Update 2021/04/27: 5,000 votes and 831 comments
@Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 84 days ago (that is ridiculous), until now nothing changed.
We are still missing:
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You're doing God's work, Benny-9516.
Update 2021/05/04: more than 5,050 votes and 834 comments. The UserVoice was created on May 2nd 2020 so it's been over a year now!!!! We had features like 3x3 grid or blur background BUT for some reasons, Microsoft won't enable them for the Linux client even though they work fine.
@Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 91 days ago (that is ridiculous), until now nothing changed.
We are still missing:
It's amazing how you guys solve issues. Instead of just implementing the missing features as requested in the initial voting, after more than a year Microsoft comes up with another idea. Let's just close the voting with too many votes and ask the people to vote again on separate votings, wow thats highly impressive. That helps people which have to deal with an outdated Linux client a lot. Thanks for nothing!
@Sharon Zhao-MSFT is that the result of your escalation you've promised 95 days ago?
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Thank You! That's exactly what i thought!
Update 2021/05/17: since Microsoft decided to close the 5,085 votes voting which requested to add all the missing features to the linux client, and asked the community to vote again ...
Virtual background support for Linux: over 840 votes
View more participants in Linux: over 690 votes
Together mode in Linux: over 390 votes
just that we don't forget: @Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 104 days ago, until now nothing changed.
Update 2021/05/18: since Microsoft decided to close the 5,085 votes voting which requested to add all the missing features to the linux client, and asked the community to vote again ...
Virtual background support for Linux: over 870 votes
View more participants in Linux: over 700 votes
Together mode in Linux: over 400 votes
just that we don't forget: @Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 105 days ago, until now nothing changed.
Update 2021/05/21: since Microsoft decided to close the 5,085 votes voting which requested to add all the missing features to the linux client, and asked the community to vote again ...
Virtual background support for Linux: over 900 votes
View more participants in Linux: over 720 votes
Together mode in Linux: over 410 votes
just that we don't forget: @Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 108 days ago, until now nothing changed.
Update 2021/05/27: since Microsoft decided to close the 5,085 votes voting which requested to add all the missing features to the linux client, and asked the community to vote again ...
Virtual background support for Linux: 950 votes
View more participants in Linux: over 750 votes
Together mode in Linux: over 420 votes
just that we don't forget: @Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 114 days ago, until now nothing changed.
Update 2021/06/04: since Microsoft decided to close the 5,085 votes voting which requested to add all the missing features to the linux client, and asked the community to vote again ...
Virtual background support for Linux: more than 1000 votes
View more participants in Linux: more than 760 votes
Together mode in Linux: more than 440 votes
just that we don't forget: @Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 122 days ago, until now nothing changed.
Update 2021/06/21: since Microsoft decided to close the 5,085 votes voting which requested to add all the missing features to the linux client, and asked the community to vote again ...
Virtual background support for Linux: more than 1,100 votes
View more participants in Linux: more than 810 votes
Together mode in Linux: more than 470 votes
just that we don't forget: @Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 139 days ago, until now nothing changed.
Update 2021/07/06: since Microsoft decided to close the 5,085 votes voting which requested to add all the missing features to the linux client, and asked the community to vote again ...
Virtual background support for Linux: more than 1,150 votes
View more participants in Linux: more than 840 votes
Together mode in Linux: more than 490 votes
just that we don't forget: @Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 154 days ago, until now nothing changed.
Update 2021/07/16: since Microsoft decided to close the 5,085 votes voting which requested to add all the missing features to the linux client, and asked the community to vote again ...
Virtual background support for Linux: 1,200 votes
View more participants in Linux: more than 860 votes
Together mode in Linux: more than 500 votes
just that we don't forget: @Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 164 days ago, until now nothing changed.
Update 2021/08/09: since Microsoft decided to close the 5,085 votes voting which requested to add all the missing features to the linux client, and asked the community to vote again ...
Virtual background support for Linux: more than 1,260 votes
View more participants in Linux: more than 900 votes
Together mode in Linux: more than 530 votes
just that we don't forget: @Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 188 days ago, until now nothing changed.
The last update was a month ago. Is there any further development?!?
Update 2021/08/29: since Microsoft decided to close the 5,085 votes voting which requested to add all the missing features to the linux client, and asked the community to vote again ...
Virtual background support for Linux: more than 1,315 votes
View more participants in Linux: more than 925 votes
Together mode in Linux: more than 545 votes
just that we don't forget: @Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 208 days ago, until now nothing changed.
The last update was a month ago. Is there any further development?!?
Update 2021/09/13: since Microsoft decided to close the 5,085 votes voting which requested to add all the missing features to the linux client, and asked the community to vote again ...
Virtual background support for Linux: 1,370 votes
View more participants in Linux: more than 960 votes
Together mode in Linux: more than 560 votes
just that we don't forget: @Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 223 days ago, until now nothing changed.
The last update was May 24th. Is there any further development?!?
Update 2021/09/30: since Microsoft decided to close the 5,085 votes voting which requested to add all the missing features to the linux client, and asked the community to vote again ...
Virtual background support for Linux: more than 1,430 votes
View more participants in Linux: more than 1000 votes
Together mode in Linux: more than 590 votes
just that we don't forget: @Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 240 days ago, until now nothing changed.
The latest release from yesterday still has no improvements. We are missing the same amount of features since May 2nd 2020. Is there any further development?!?
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Yeah! There are totally not focused on us Linux users!
Update 2021/11/29: since Microsoft decided to close the 5,085 votes voting which requested to add all the missing features to the linux client, and asked the community to vote again ...
Virtual background support for Linux: more than 1,620 votes
View more participants in Linux: more than 1110 votes
Together mode in Linux: more than 640 votes
just that we don't forget: @Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 300 days ago, until now nothing changed.
The last update was Sep 29th. Is there any further development?!?
Update 2022/01/07: This question is over a year old now. Since then nothing has happened regarding the missing features, they are still missing ...
Since Microsoft decided to close the 5,085 votes voting which requested to add all the missing features to the linux client, and asked the community to vote again ...
Virtual background support for Linux: more than 1,830 votes
View more participants in Linux: more than 1220 votes
Together mode in Linux: more than 690 votes
just that we don't forget: @Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 339 days ago, until now nothing changed.
The last update was Sep 29th 2021. Is there any further development?!?
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Please Microsoft, we badly need a Teams Client for Linux having the same features as the Windows version.
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Most ridiculous, most of that works on the android version...
How hard can it be. I get it if they don't want to do the window based sharing...
But blurring background works on Android
More than 4 incoming videos work on Android
I think Microsoft just doesn't care about the Linux version, and dropped it internally already
Update 2022/02/14: This question is over a year old now. Since then nothing has happened regarding the missing features, they are still missing ...
Since Microsoft decided to close the 5,085 votes voting which requested to add all the missing features to the linux client, and asked the community to vote again ...
Virtual background support for Linux: more than 2,100 votes
View more participants in Linux: more than 1350 votes
Together mode in Linux: more than 820 votes
just that we don't forget: @Sharon Zhao-MSFT said they will escalate it 377 days ago, until now nothing changed.
The last update was Sep 29th. Is there any further development?!?
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i can not post the url but at packages.microsoft.com repos/ms-teams/pool/main/t/teams-insiders you can find newer builds
Yes and guess what, still there haven't been any feature improvements. And there is no changlog so nobody knows what they have been working on for the last 4 months. Could be just a space somewhere in the code.
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Microsucks is afraid of Linux. Shook. Any support of, or integration with Linux is when their hand is forced.
Keep up the good work! (Just do not be disappointed when they continue to fail you)
After two years of hope, I have now finally given up. Microsoft is not interested in developing the Linux client in any way. So I decided to delete the client and use the browser version instead. Thanks for nothing.
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The browser version is also not fully featured!
Our company moved AWAY FROM MICROSOFT and I suggest all of you do the same. Vote with your wallets, that is the only way corporations pay attention. Plenty of BETTER alternatives to Teams out there
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Hi @Anonymous
I completely understand your feelings. Removing these feature is really inconvenient for customers and make a difference for user's experience.
I will confirm with Microsoft Teams development whether these update can be shown in Roadmap. If there is any update, we will inform you in time!
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That's not an answer to my question ...
@Marian Javorka - MSFT told us in JUN 2020:
"I know that we didn't release new update for a while (insiders build was updated recently), but we were working on bringing in SNAP package and wanted to release new version together. We are solving one last issue with SNAP package and then we will proceed.
And just to give you a preview of what's cooking now, we are working on enabling Background Blur, Screen Sharing indicator (aka the red border), Screen Sharing cursor, but we also work on updating to newer Electron and enabling accessibility features, like Orca screen reader. Just to name some."
It took 6 months to fix ONE issue with SNAP package ... So when can we expect a full featured Linux client?!? In 2, 3, 4 or even 5 years?!?
Any updates?
At least we can see which features we are missing on Linux and the list is getting longer
https://aka.ms/TeamsFeaturesByPlatform
Thx for your support!
more than 4,000 votes, but still no response from Microsoft. Not planned nor on the backlog. Not even under review!!!
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Nice discovery,
however, seems to be not 100% correct, I'd say. I've been able to raise my hand within the Linux desktop client and the comparison claims one is not able to do so:
Yes you are right.
So new task: Update the list. I am curious how long this will take :)
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I think really long :-(
Dear @JimmyYang-MSFT ,
Could you at least let us know what the development team said?
Thanks already!
Haven't received your update for a long time, any update now?