Bring better emoji to all Microsoft products (especially Teams)

Bring better emoji to all Microsoft products (especially Teams)

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July 27, 2018
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In today's enterprise, employees increasingly rely on emoji for communications.  Most employees have long used emoji available on iPhones, Androids, in Skype (consumer version), WhatsApp and other consumer chat tools, and rely on them for effective interpersonal communication.

When a company deploys a Microsoft "business" product such as Lync (now Skype for Business) or Teams, the lack of comprehensive emoji support disrupts the language center and communication pathways in the users' brain in a similar manner to a lobotomy or severe brain trauma.

These communication issues invariably lead to poor communication in the workplace, and in mission critical jobs often lead to loss of life or worse.

As the Millennials and younger generations are "emoji-native" speakers, this lack of emoji support hits them even harder, and exacerbates the discrimination they already experience in the workplace by their older peers, who fail to understand the severity of their plight as the older peers spent their formative years with only the ability to type emoji in sideways T9 sms messages on their Nokia 9110 or Motorola Star-tac.

Please help us convince Microsoft to allocate the appropriate resources to get emojis in all the business apps.  Side note: MICROSOFT YOU ALREADY OWN SKYPE WHICH IS GREAT AT EMOJI. JUST HAVE THE ENGINEERS SEND A MESSAGE TO EACH OTHER.  Oh, sorry, none of the chat tools actually talk to each other properly either so the various engineering teams probably can't chat with each other.  Bummer.

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