Microsoft has added threaded conversations to its Groups communications app this week. After promising to launch the highly-requested function in mid-2025, Microsoft is now releasing a public preview of threaded conversations for Groups customers to allow.
The Microsoft Groups threads integration debuts within the channels part of the app, the place it really works a bit of otherwise to how Slack handles threaded conversations. “You possibly can observe the threads that matter most to you, and when an necessary replace or choice is made, you’ll be able to ship it again to the principle dialog, so everybody stays aligned with out requiring them to sift by each reply,” explains Noga Ronen, senior product advertising and marketing supervisor for Microsoft Groups.
Microsoft will permit Groups customers to both create posts or threads in a single channel, so it doesn’t look like threads might be as simple to create as Slack permits. Groups channel homeowners must choose a format of both posts or threads, relying on how a channel is used.
Microsoft has additionally created a adopted threads view for Groups the place all of the threaded conversations you care about might be discovered. It’s simple to unfollow noisy threads from right here, too. “By default, you’ll solely observe threads you’ve began, replied to, been talked about in, or explicitly chosen to observe,” says Ronen.
Alongside the general public preview of threaded conversations, Microsoft Groups can be lastly getting the flexibility to react to messages with a number of emoji reactions. “A number of emojis per message is now in public preview,” says Ronen. Slash instructions in Groups are additionally getting some enhancements, with the flexibility to seek for GIFs with the /gif command.