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First Preview of Chat from Microsoft Teams begins rolling out to Windows Insiders Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re beginning to roll out new Windows 11 consumer experiences to bring you closer to the people you love, your friends and family, using Microsoft Teams. This includes a sleek new Chat flyout right off the taskbar as well as an overall Teams desktop experience architected for optimized performance and the Windows 11 design language. You can remain connected to the people you care about with chats and video calls from the convenience of your Windows 11 PC, while they can participate from any device with Microsoft Teams: desktop, mobile, or even just a web browser. We’re excited to share more information about the experience you’ll see in Windows 11, our staged rollout plan to Windows Insiders and what you’ll be able to [ more… ]

Extending the Context Menu and Share Dialog in Windows 11 Windows 11 brings refinement to contextual file operations in the right-click context menu and share dialog. These are extensible by apps, including unpackaged Win32 apps.  The context menu is one of the most popular and useful shell extensions. If you are already in File Explorer or on the Desktop, it significantly reduces the number of steps to complete a file operation compared to opening a separate app. As useful as the Windows 10 context menu is, there are aspects of its design we sought to improve in Windows 11. The most common commands – cut, copy, paste, delete, and rename – are far from the mouse pointer, touch point, or pen. The menu is exceptionally long. It has grown in an unregulated environment for 20 years, since Windows XP, when [ more… ]