You’ll quickly have the ability to obtain Microsoft Teams from the Microsoft Store that comes constructed into Windows, in line with a roadmap update from the corporate, as spotted by Neowin. Yes, you learn that proper. Microsoft’s work communications app hasn’t been obtainable by itself retailer up so far; it both needed to be downloaded from the net or installed alongside the rest of Office 365. (Though, as ZDNet notes, it was available at one point on the shop completely for individuals utilizing Windows 10 in S mode, which restricted the place you can set up software program from.)

According to the roadmap, Teams will likely be obtainable on the shop someday subsequent month for each Windows 10 and 11. The model for Windows 10 will likely be usable with private, work, and college accounts, whereas the 11 model will simply be for work and college accounts. Windows 11 already has a model of Teams that comes constructed into it, which is supposed for use for chatting with family and friends utilizing a private account, not as a Slack different.

Microsoft promised Teams for its retailer final 12 months when it launched the Microsoft Store redesign. That was additionally when it introduced that you just’d have the ability to set up Android apps on Window 11 by way of the Amazon app retailer — a functionality that’s sarcastically given you the facility to seize Teams from an app store in your Windows machine for a couple of months so long as you had been prepared to make use of the cellular model.

It’s good to see that Microsoft is engaged on making it simpler to get Teams on Windows for individuals who want it. And as a twin PC / Mac consumer, I’m completely happy to listen to that it’s also testing an Apple Silicon-native version of Teams; hopefully, that’ll assist with the completely glacial launch instances for the app on M1 Macs. (Though, at present, you need to obtain the macOS model from the net as a substitute of utilizing the App Store.)