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The tech giant will move away from Classic Teams in favor of thenew Teams app.

You’ll see quite a few changes when upgrading from Classic Teams to the new version of Teams.

Microsoft Teams on Windows

The new Microsoft Teams promises better performance than Classic Teams, but it lacks some features from its predecessor.

Some of those changes are from entirely new features, but others represent changes to preexisting functionality.

Specifically, there are some features that are completely removed when upgrading from Classic Teams to the new Teams.

Is new always better?

New Microsoft Teams

The new Microsoft Teams promises better performance than Classic Teams, but it lacks some features from its predecessor.

Some features and experiences have changed so much that they might as well be classified as new capabilities.

Other features have been removed entirely.

For those unaffected by removals, the new Teams is only a positive.

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“I never use the “Chat” view in the old one.

It’s a jumbled mess of a list of chats sorted by “most recent”.

It’s plain horrible.”

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Microsoft replaced accessing contacts from the Chat section of Teams with the new People app.

The new experience has some of the same functionality but isn’t a 1:1 replacement.

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