By Simon Batt
Publication Date: 2026-02-24 08:05:00
Summary
- New Planner UI rolling out in Teams and web; the rollout begins today and will phase in over the next few weeks.
- Cleaner, modern interface: less clutter, improved spacing, and faster performance for focused planning.
- Planner also adds mentioning people in tasks; comments won’t email everyone anymore.
Whenever Microsoft rolls out a sweeping UI update for one of its apps, it’s always a huge hit or miss. Either Microsoft nails some of the pain points that people had with the old software, or we get whatever happened to the new Outlook app. As such, when I heard that Microsoft was adding a new UI to Planner, I was cautiously optimistic….
