Large Gallery view has been available in Microsoft Teams since last year, allowing up to 49 participants on a screen at the same time. The new preview version allows users to increase participants in a single view to 98. “When you choose Large Gallery view, and if there are more than 49 videos, navigation controls < and > would appear below the Large Gallery and you can use these controls to view or engage with more video participants,” Microsoft says. Elsewhere, Microsoft Teams now has a pagination experience open by default on the public preview on Mac and Windows. Users can tap into this feature through the navigation controls on the Large Gallery view in a meeting. Furthermore, Microsoft Teams meetings now also support chat bubbles. This makes it easier to see chats thanks to floating links directly into a chat.
Build 2021
Some of these features were announced back at Microsoft Build in May. Perhaps the biggest piece of news was the launch of Collaborative apps on Microsoft Teams/Microsoft 365. Microsoft says the current shift to a hybrid work environment of on-premises and remote collaboration means a new class of applications is needed. These apps must embrace collaboration at their core and on a single layer. Microsoft calls them Collaborative Apps, and they will be available for all Teams users. Tip of the day: If your PC keeps connecting to the wrong WiFi network, you can set WiFi priority to avoid the need to manually select access points over and over again.
