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It lets you run Slack in its own window, give it a home in your start menu, and gives you something to alt-tab to that isn’t one of the many browser tabs you might have open.

Think Hipchat, but prettier and with the ability to integrate anything from Dropbox to Giphy with just a click.įirst and foremost, it just makes jumping in and out of Slack easier. In case you’re unfamiliar, Slack is perhaps best described in an overly simple way: It’s a private chatroom for teams. Slack has, at long last, released a Windows app. Despite making up over a quarter of Slack’s user base, using Slack on Windows has always meant running it in a browser tab - unlike with OS X, Android or iOS, there was no dedicated Windows app. If you want to give this app a try, download it from Windows Store below.If you use Slack on Windows, you’ve probably found yourself feeling a bit… unloved. Rather than submit this to a physics journal for peer review, we decided to fix it. And finally, if you had multiple displays, new windows (such as a call or a Post) would appear on the primary display instead of the display that Slack was on.Signing out of teams from the right-click menu is 46.8% more reliable.A slightly more frequent crash while checking for updates eliminated.An infrequent crash when quitting the app has been dispatched.Our zoom levels now match the Chrome browser, so you should feel right at home (so long as your home is Chrome).For the savvy troubleshooter, a new tool: Help > Show Logs in Explorer will package up some app diagnostic files, should you ever need them.This shouldn’t affect much, aside from some bugs wherein we forgot your teams or app settings, which are now fixed.

We simplified the way we remember your teams and app settings.

Or should that be fewer? Whatever: It’s better.

We discovered that removing a bunch of unnecessary processes improved app startup time.

This one matches your theme, and comes with a free hamburger*! *menu. So: we went shopping for a new window frame.

The shades of gray in our menu bar were so 1992 - they didn’t match any of our outfits.

There are some good advantages with the store apps like seamless updates, easier install/uninstall experience, and moreover, it is a bit faster than its win32 counterpart. Slack has incorporated its modern app with some neat features like Live tiles, toast notifications and a different title bar.

Slack’s win32 app is already on windows desktop, is now available to download from the store as a modern app for Windows 10 for PC.