Have you been confused by Microsoft Teams, which affords one app for customers and one other for enterprise customers? If so, these days could also be ending.

Microsoft is testing builds within the Windows 11 Canary and Dev Channels to streamline Teams into one thing that makes a little bit extra sense: a single app. Build 26080 brings with it a unified Teams expertise, permitting you to easily swap between accounts and atmosphere slightly than load separate apps for enterprise customers and customers. You’ll merely swap between them by clicking your icon within the higher right-hand nook of the app.

“We received consistent feedback from personal and work users: You prefer a single Teams app that allows you to easily access and switch between personal and work accounts,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post. “This update lets you use one app for all kinds of Teams accounts.”

Microsoft’s horrible Teams, for customers

That’s true, and when you look again at Teams over the previous couple of years you’ll perceive why: Microsoft Teams for Home launched in 2020, with shared grocery lists and different options for customers on iOS and Android. Then there was Personal Features in Teams, in 2021. If you haven’t heard of both of those, you’re not alone — that’s in all probability why Microsoft made its choice.

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Then, in fact, there was Teams Chat within Windows 11, embodying the hope that associates would use Teams to speak to at least one one other after hours… after speaking to colleagues on Teams in the course of the workday. Neither Teams Chat nor Microsoft’s People app for Windows 10 gained traction. By 2023 Teams Chat was spun off into the Teams Free app… which now’s being assimilated right into a single Teams app.

Yes, customers could select to make use of Teams. But it seems that Microsoft’s efforts to push customers to make use of Teams could also be lastly, fortunately, ending.

New Copilot instructions

Microsoft can also be including numerous instructions to the built-in Windows model of Copilot, in addition to testing a model of Copilot that may very well be undocked and run as a window. The new instructions embrace:

The skill to:

• Ask for obtainable wi-fi networks.
• Ask for system or machine info.
• Ask for battery info.
• Ask to wash storage.
• Ask to empty recycle bin.
• Ask to toggle battery saver.
• Ask to indicate startup apps.
• Ask to your IP tackle.
• Ask for system, machine, or storage info.

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Microsoft can also be including extra accessibility options, together with the power to:

• Ask to activate narrator.
• Ask to open voice entry.
• Ask to activate magnifier.
• Ask to alter textual content measurement.
• Ask to begin stay captions.
• Ask to activate high-contrast.
• Ask to begin voice typing.

For reference, these instructions already work:

• Ask to toggle darkish/mild theme.
• Ask to toggle Bluetooth.
• Ask to toggle don’t disturb.
• Ask so as to add a tool.
• Ask to take a screenshot.
• Ask to forged your display screen to a different monitor.
• Ask to alter your background picture.
• Ask to set quantity, change quantity, or mute/unmute quantity.
• Ask to launch an utility.
• State that sure components of your PC aren’t working: Audio, Windows Update, Camera, Bluetooth, Printer, Network, others.
• Ask to snap a window.
• Ask to begin a spotlight session.

Power Automate through Copilot

Microsoft can also be testing one probably very fascinating functionality: a Power Automate plugin for Copilot. Power Automate is basically IFTTT for Windows — the power to create “macros” of automated duties. But the app remains to be a little bit advanced, and requires twiddling with an unfamiliar interface. Copilot might automate the method, and we’re to see what it will possibly do. Examples embrace:

• Write an electronic mail to my group wishing everybody a cheerful weekend.
• List the highest 5 highest mountains on this planet in an Excel file.
• Rename all PDF recordsdata in a folder so as to add the phrase last on the finish.
• Move all phrase paperwork to a different folder.
• I would like to separate a PDF by the primary web page. Can you assist?

You’ll must obtain a plugin from the Microsoft Store.