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Interesting how this will stop me from taking a picture with my mobile phone. The amount of effort people will go to, to make people's work more cumbersome. I a

Interesting how this will stop me from taking a picture with my mobile phone. The amount of effort people will go to, to make people's work more cumbersome. I am not screenshotting for espionage, I am screenshotting to accomplish my job.

mingus88 1y ago
That was my first thought also. I suppose if the presenter wants no screenshots they’d also want cameras on and you’d have to be pretty sly about using your phone. Either way, dumb. The analog hole can’t be closed.
- dullcrisp 1y ago
  Sounds like they’ll want to disable the camera controls next.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y ago
  Duplicate screen to another monitor outside of view of the camera is the low tech solution. The better one would be to get a HDMI splitter that can plug the feed into something to make a digital copy.
alabastervlog 1y ago
And the phone’s what I’d be using to exfiltrate anyway. I’d only screenshot on the work device for work purposes.
- grapesodaaaaa 1y ago
  100% this. If I have something juicy I want to show my wife about how they’re messing up our 401k’s, etc. I take a phone picture so that there’s no record of it happening on the official device. Microsoft doing this is a huge waste of time other than catching the bottom 5% of people doing something like that. I just want to add that my company has our stuff so locked down, that it’s easier for me to take a phone pic, transcribe the code with ChatGPT, fix the issue on my personal machine, then type it back into the work laptop for some issues. It’s absurd how businesses want to control everything to such a degree that 1) there are now these crazy, leaky workarounds, and 2) it’s to the detriment of people actually getting stuff done for the business.
constantcrying 1y ago
Not relevant at all. This is like a watermark on a PDF. Not some impossible to circumvent security protocol.
Aurornis 1y ago
It’s not literally every Teams meeting. It’s an option the presenter can turn on when needed. If you need the data from the presenter to do your job, presumably you’d contact them and ask.
- Frost1x 1y ago
  I don’t know about you but sometimes it’s some small piece of information that isn’t worth contacting the presenter about. I need to call or craft an email, be polite and come up with some nonsense greeting maybe for a bullet point or two or a string I don’t want to rapidly shift focus to duplicate by hand. Then I have to sit around and wait for a response where they have to do the same, and I’m definitely not their priority. Businesses want to control everything, so this will become a common default for people to use. It’ll be embedded in all sorts of company policies and I wouldn’t be surprised if Teams clients in some corporate domain can set it as a default option to help promote the policy (by default block screenshots on all our presentations to reduce liability risks). If it’s like a paper, some data advertised, or some significant work that’s when you generally want and need to contact the author.
  - Aurornis 1y ago
    > I don’t know about you but sometimes it’s some small piece of information that isn’t worth contacting the presenter about. I need to call or craft an email, be polite and come up with some nonsense greeting maybe for a bullet point or two or a string I don’t want to rapidly shift focus to duplicate by hand. Then I have to sit around and wait for a response where they have to do the same, and I’m definitely not their priority. So it’s something critically important for you to get your job done, but also something that’s not worth writing a couple sentence e-mail about, but also going to block your work while you sit around and wait all day for it? Communication is the foundation of any office job. If you’re in a meeting with these people, just ask in the meeting? If you can’t, send an email during the meeting and you haven’t lost any time. It’s really not as hard as you’re trying to make it sound. I generally discourage people from using ChatGPT for office communication, but to be honest if writing a simple e-mail request to get something you need for your job triggers this level of overthinking, you might benefit from letting it at least draft the email to get you started and past the analysis paralysis.
lolinder 1y ago
> I am not screenshotting for espionage, I am screenshotting to accomplish my job. This is literally the threat model that this feature is protecting against: it gives presenters a way to say "no really, when I say don't record I mean don't record". If people end up overusing it at your company, that's a problem to address with them, but I can totally imagine use cases where you would want to turn this on just as an added precaution against accidental but well-intentioned misuse of the visual aids in a private presentation. This isn't to protect against corporate espionage, it's to give presenters the option to be a little bit more clear about their expectations of confidentiality.
- Aeolun 1y ago
  No, no, what they’re doing is making it harder for me to work around their (inevitably misplaced) expectations of confidentiality. This is one of those things that will be misused to hell and back so we’re better off not having the feature at all. It’s existence is a net negative to corporate employees everywhere.
  - kenjackson 1y ago
    The other commenter is right. Same reason I use DRM email. It’s not that I’m stopping espionage, but reminding folks that this message shouldn’t be distributed to others.
    - zvr 1y ago
      Some people also use formats like PDF or images instead of editable text or slides for exactly the same reason. It's not that they can't be modified, but it's an indication that you're not supposed to.
Derbasti 1y ago
Could you trivially circumvent this by running Teams in the browser?
- avs733 1y ago
  >to Android, desktop, iOS, and *web users* worldwide in July 2025.
  - miniBill 1y ago
    ... how?
    - greycol 1y ago
      Basically by enabling drm (widevine). For the browsers/configurations that people knowledgable about browsers use for anything but streaming they'll force audio only mode and pretend that it's an acceptable solution.

mingus88 1y ago

That was my first thought also. I suppose if the presenter wants no screenshots they’d also want cameras on and you’d have to be pretty sly about using your phone. Either way, dumb. The analog hole can’t be closed.

dullcrisp 1y ago
Sounds like they’ll want to disable the camera controls next.
0cf8612b2e1e 1y ago
Duplicate screen to another monitor outside of view of the camera is the low tech solution. The better one would be to get a HDMI splitter that can plug the feed into something to make a digital copy.

alabastervlog 1y ago

And the phone’s what I’d be using to exfiltrate anyway. I’d only screenshot on the work device for work purposes.

grapesodaaaaa 1y ago
100% this. If I have something juicy I want to show my wife about how they’re messing up our 401k’s, etc. I take a phone picture so that there’s no record of it happening on the official device. Microsoft doing this is a huge waste of time other than catching the bottom 5% of people doing something like that. I just want to add that my company has our stuff so locked down, that it’s easier for me to take a phone pic, transcribe the code with ChatGPT, fix the issue on my personal machine, then type it back into the work laptop for some issues. It’s absurd how businesses want to control everything to such a degree that 1) there are now these crazy, leaky workarounds, and 2) it’s to the detriment of people actually getting stuff done for the business.

constantcrying 1y ago

Not relevant at all. This is like a watermark on a PDF. Not some impossible to circumvent security protocol.

Aurornis 1y ago

It’s not literally every Teams meeting. It’s an option the presenter can turn on when needed. If you need the data from the presenter to do your job, presumably you’d contact them and ask.

Frost1x 1y ago
I don’t know about you but sometimes it’s some small piece of information that isn’t worth contacting the presenter about. I need to call or craft an email, be polite and come up with some nonsense greeting maybe for a bullet point or two or a string I don’t want to rapidly shift focus to duplicate by hand. Then I have to sit around and wait for a response where they have to do the same, and I’m definitely not their priority. Businesses want to control everything, so this will become a common default for people to use. It’ll be embedded in all sorts of company policies and I wouldn’t be surprised if Teams clients in some corporate domain can set it as a default option to help promote the policy (by default block screenshots on all our presentations to reduce liability risks). If it’s like a paper, some data advertised, or some significant work that’s when you generally want and need to contact the author.
- Aurornis 1y ago
  > I don’t know about you but sometimes it’s some small piece of information that isn’t worth contacting the presenter about. I need to call or craft an email, be polite and come up with some nonsense greeting maybe for a bullet point or two or a string I don’t want to rapidly shift focus to duplicate by hand. Then I have to sit around and wait for a response where they have to do the same, and I’m definitely not their priority. So it’s something critically important for you to get your job done, but also something that’s not worth writing a couple sentence e-mail about, but also going to block your work while you sit around and wait all day for it? Communication is the foundation of any office job. If you’re in a meeting with these people, just ask in the meeting? If you can’t, send an email during the meeting and you haven’t lost any time. It’s really not as hard as you’re trying to make it sound. I generally discourage people from using ChatGPT for office communication, but to be honest if writing a simple e-mail request to get something you need for your job triggers this level of overthinking, you might benefit from letting it at least draft the email to get you started and past the analysis paralysis.

lolinder 1y ago

> I am not screenshotting for espionage, I am screenshotting to accomplish my job. This is literally the threat model that this feature is protecting against: it gives presenters a way to say "no really, when I say don't record I mean don't record". If people end up overusing it at your company, that's a problem to address with them, but I can totally imagine use cases where you would want to turn this on just as an added precaution against accidental but well-intentioned misuse of the visual aids in a private presentation. This isn't to protect against corporate espionage, it's to give presenters the option to be a little bit more clear about their expectations of confidentiality.

Aeolun 1y ago
No, no, what they’re doing is making it harder for me to work around their (inevitably misplaced) expectations of confidentiality. This is one of those things that will be misused to hell and back so we’re better off not having the feature at all. It’s existence is a net negative to corporate employees everywhere.
- kenjackson 1y ago
  The other commenter is right. Same reason I use DRM email. It’s not that I’m stopping espionage, but reminding folks that this message shouldn’t be distributed to others.
  - zvr 1y ago
    Some people also use formats like PDF or images instead of editable text or slides for exactly the same reason. It's not that they can't be modified, but it's an indication that you're not supposed to.

Derbasti 1y ago

Could you trivially circumvent this by running Teams in the browser?

avs733 1y ago
>to Android, desktop, iOS, and *web users* worldwide in July 2025.
- miniBill 1y ago
  ... how?
  - greycol 1y ago
    Basically by enabling drm (widevine). For the browsers/configurations that people knowledgable about browsers use for anything but streaming they'll force audio only mode and pretend that it's an acceptable solution.