In Windows 11, Microsoft Teams has lengthy been an app imposed on customers, relatively than one helpfully supplied to them. Ever had a dialog with a buddy, solely to have a totally random individual wander up and take part as in the event that they’d been invited to speak all alongside? The built-in integration of Teams chat into Windows 11’s taskbar has at all times carried that vibe—you need to make some extent of expelling it, in any other case it continues to sit down awkwardly amongst your different shortcut icons. But within the newest Windows Insider Dev preview construct, it appears to be like like Microsoft is lastly acknowledging how undesirable Teams chat has been.

As introduced in a current Windows Insider Blog post (and surfaced by Windows Central), a pinned shortcut to Teams will substitute the chat flyout, beginning with construct 23481. The change ought to make eradicating the app out of your taskbar a lot simpler—like all taskbar shortcuts, you’ll solely must right-click on it after which select Unpin. Previously, nuking the chat integration might solely be finished by wading via your taskbar settings, which took a number of extra steps. The change additionally eliminates the inconvenience of getting to make this swap manually, as customers who use Teams’ assembly characteristic greater than chat have needed to do. (Though perhaps simply allow us to resolve so as to add the shortcut or not throughout setup, Microsoft?)

Other updates are rolling out with this new Insider construct as properly, which additionally will probably grow to be options accessible for most people later this yr. They embrace embrace Windows Ink enhancements, a brand new Focus Session widget, and the elimination of some folder possibility settings in File Explorer. Long-time Windows customers could wish to try those folder option tweaks particularly, as Microsoft describes them because the removing of “legacy settings” which have “been around for ages [and] not being regularly used by people on Windows 11.” Insider builds take note of person suggestions, so if in case you have a spare PC, you could wish to check out the construct and weigh in along with your opinion now—earlier than any last selections are set in stone.

Especially since we’ve seen how things can shake out for us “legacy users” in Windows 11.