On the one hand, it’s good to give users choices, and for people with larger/multiple monitors who spend a lot of time in one or more apps this will be a productivity win by enabling them to keep a specific application open alongside other information in Teams. They all function independently of each other.Īs far as I can tell, there’s no way to maintain the popped-out applications once you quit Teams, they don’t re-appear on re-load. In fact, because you can pop-open each tabbed page once and then navigate between tabs you could potentially open more copies of a tab page, up to N+2 where N is the number of tabs in your application. This means that (including the application that opens in Teams) you can have 3 versions of a tabbed webpage open: in-Teams, popped-open from the rail, and popped-open from the tab page. Also, you can pop-open each tab within an application once, including applications you have already popped open.

You can pop-open each application from the rail once, but can have multiple applications opened. Because tabbed applications are really just iFramed webpages behind the scenes though, there shouldn’t really be any change in how those application function. There’s nothing extra developers have to do in order to enable this (but also seemingly no way to prevent it from happening). You can pop-out any application apart from the “core” Teams functionality such as Activity, Chat, Teams, Calendar, Calls and Files.

within an app, an individual tab can be popped-out, look for the icon in the top-right corner.

for apps that are on the left-rail or within the apps ellipsis menu, right-click the app and choose “Pop out app”.

It’s now possible to “pop-out” Teams applications into their own window, which can then be resized or moved onto another monitor. I wasn’t going to write anything at all, but the more I thought about it the more I realised I had some mixed views about this. This was announced last week but I’ve only just got around to writing about it. You can now pop-out apps and tabs into their own window in Microsoft Teams

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