Desktop version Microsoft Teams supports one work and one private account – Computer – News

The desktop version of communications program Microsoft Teams will support a work account and a private account at the same time with an update in December. Microsoft clarified that after news came out that Teams is getting support for multiple accounts.

Microsoft has the text on the roadmap site and posted a post to clarify that desktop users will not be able to use multiple work accounts side by side starting December. That option will come, Microsoft says, but it won’t be available until later. Including tweaker Dutch2007 and twitterer Michel de Rooij noted the other wording.

Microsoft says work on the feature to use multiple work accounts side by side continues. “The team will continue to add support for this in our desktop clients. That will come at a later time.”

There has been one since 2017 call on Uservoice to add support for multiple accounts to Teams. That call has received 28,000 votes. It is unknown whether Microsoft decided to roadmap the feature for that reason, but a Microsoft employee already responded to Uservoice this summer with the announcement that the feature would be coming. Support for multiple accounts is already included in the mobile app for Android and iOS. The update for the desktop version of Teams should be released worldwide in December, the roadmap said.

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