The first shirt I ever bought myself was a Slackware shirt. I was like 15 years old, and Slackware Linux was my obsession. I would come home from school everyday to try to make different features work. To this one, one of my proudest moments was making my sound driver work for the first time. Most people I talked to about this thought I was insane, they had windows, things just worked.

While I have grown an appreciation for the comforts of technology just working, I would not be where I am today if it was not for those learning curves I had in Slackware. I will always keep a Slackware machine around my house. Why am I ranting about this? Microsoft announced today that there is a Teams package for Linux released.

A lot of folks don’t realize how close Microsoft and Linux have become over the last 5 years. Recently when I was at the ignite conference, I spent a lot of time talking to Red hat (who was a sponsor at the event) about how these two companies and technologies have come together.

Waking up to a cool new feature, it looks like Microsoft default mutes people when they join meetings. That is nice feature. We need more ability to set some of these features in the conferencing policy for teams. I do think this is going in the right step though.

Nice feature to wake up to

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Pin channels that are important to you or that you want to access quickly. Pinning a channel moves it to the top of your channel list. You can also reorder your pinned channels to prioritize them. This only changes your view and won’t change views for the rest of your team.

Try it out for yourself: go to the channel of your choice, select More options   >Pin. Or right click the channel name and select Pin.

So finally Microsoft has released the ability to pin various objects around the different screens in teams. This is a fantastic addition to the product and something we’ve heard about on the road map for some time.