RM472018 - Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections - New News feature in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft 365 Roadmap

Status

Launched

Release

General Availability
Targeted Release

Last Updated

Jul 8, 2025

Published Dec 11, 2024

Platforms

Android
Desktop
iOS
Web

Service

Microsoft Viva

Tag

Launched
General Availability
Targeted Release
Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
GCC
GCC High
DoD

Cloud

DoD
GCC
GCC High
Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

Summary

This update will replace the current Feed experience in Viva Connections across desktop, mobile, and web platforms with a SharePoint News reader experience. This new experience will present SharePoint news from the organizational sites, boosted news, users' followed sites, frequent sites, and people they work with in an immersive reader experience. This will include a Copilot-powered news summary as well, available only in Teams for Windows desktop in this initial release. February 2025: We inadvertently changed the status to Rolling Out, but the correct status is Development. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Description

This update will replace the current Feed experience in Viva Connections across desktop, mobile, and web platforms with a SharePoint News reader experience. This new experience will present SharePoint news from the organizational sites, boosted news, users' followed sites, frequent sites, and people they work with in an immersive reader experience. This will include a Copilot-powered news summary as well, available only in Teams for Windows desktop in this initial release. February 2025: We inadvertently changed the status to Rolling Out, but the correct status is Development. We apologize for the inconvenience.

GA date: March CY2025