Microsoft is finally fixing a major issue in Teams

Microsoft Teams is a popular online communication and collaboration tool, especially in work and education environments, where it can facilitate hybrid and remote setups. Although the software regularly receives new features that improve productivity, it also receives some less desirable capabilities from time to time too. However, Teams is now set to receive a feature that finally resolves a major annoyance in the software.

Right now, if you upload a file in a Teams chat, you cannot type a message and send it while the file uploads. If you do, you receive an error message that explains that the file upload needs to complete first. This can become a nuisance especially if you're uploading a large file or if you're on a slow connection, and essentially exhibits a blocking behavior for that particular chat.

The good news is that Microsoft finally understands that this is not a good user experience, which is why it is rolling out asynchronous uploads for Teams chats. What this means is that you'll be able to send messages while a file is uploaded in the background, improving overall productivity and "perceived latency". Of course, you can assume that this may cause some confusion at first as people adapt to the new UX where they start referring to a file in a sent message before the upload completes, but it will be interesting to see if Microsoft implements a workaround for this issue too. We'll find out more when asynchronous uploads land on Teams on Windows and Mac this June.

Microsoft has other features planned for Teams in June too, you can view the summary below:

• Assistance from Facilitator Agent, which will make notes on your behalf in Teams Rooms on Android
• Search for cloud-hosted files in the quick share experience
• Upgrades to download manager for improved visibility and control, along with new keyboard shortcuts
• Quick Share for images, while preserving permissions

As can be surmised, June is set to be a big month for Microsoft Teams users. We'll find out more about what other features the company has planned for this set of customers over the next few weeks.