To launch Teams Chat, you can either click the Teams Chat icon in the taskbar, or use the Win+C shortcut. Naturally, you’ll need to be signed into your Windows account to use this new feature. In a blog post, Microsoft said that the company added Teams Chat to Windows 11 to facilitate multi-tasking, as opposed to dominating your attention on a smartphone by taking up the entirety of a screen. You can work within Teams Chat, or click the button at the very bottom of the pop-up menu to launch Microsoft Teams itself. Teams Chat has two key functions: (text) chat, and video calls, which Teams Chat calls Meet. Remember, Teams Chat isn’t Microsoft Teams, per se-just small subset of that. Presumably, Teams Chat will simply show up on your Taskbar for now Microsoft says that you’ll need to reboot for the small, purple, movie-camera-shaped icon to appear, though a reboot is part of the process to upgrade to a new build, anyway. That gave way to Skype Meet Now for Windows 10, and now Teams Chat for Windows 11-one of the new features in Windows 11 that Microsoft is slowly rolling out as it prepares for a fall launch.
Microsoft has tried integrating chat or chat-like functions in the Windows Taskbar ever since My People debuted a few years ago.