Microsoft will quickly present a single Groups Home windows and macOS app for all account varieties, permitting customers to change between work, faculty, or private profiles with simply a few mouse clicks.
The corporate says the brand new unified Groups software can be made out there to industrial prospects in April by way of the common replace course of.
Nevertheless, a preview model is already progressively rolling out to Home windows Insiders within the Canary and Dev channels utilizing Microsoft Groups model 24057.2000.2723.3544 or greater.
It’ll even be mechanically deployed on clear installs of Home windows 11 Insider Preview Construct 26080 and later (ISOs for this construct may be downloaded right here).
“Beginning with Home windows 11, model 24H2, Groups customers will get entry to a preview expertise of the brand new, unified Microsoft Groups expertise on Home windows,” the Home windows Insider workforce stated at this time.
“Microsoft Groups can be out there as a single software, enabling customers to seamlessly change between a number of cloud environments, tenants, and account varieties throughout private and work.”
Microsoft additionally improved notifications to obviously point out which Groups account they belong to, whereas private notifications banners present extra particulars and make it simpler to work together with the alerts.
​In future releases, Microsoft Groups customers will have the ability to choose the account they like to make use of earlier than becoming a member of a gathering. Moreover, Microsoft will enable customers to affix Groups conferences with out signing in for simpler entry.
Whereas the present unified preview app expertise is known as “Microsoft Groups (work or faculty),” Redmond will change to “Microsoft Groups” with an upcoming replace.
The corporate additionally plans to simplify the naming scheme by eradicating “Microsoft Groups (free),” its present standalone client app for Home windows 11, in future variations.
“We acquired constant suggestions from private and work customers: you favor a single Groups app that means that you can simply entry and change between private and work accounts. This replace allows you to use one app for every kind of Groups accounts,” the corporate added.
“We listened to customers about their communication wants in varied facets of their lives and the way they wish to use Groups. The suggestions was clear {that a} multi-window expertise is most popular.”