Since I have not seen anyone mention this problem yet: Teams doesn’t let you mute other people in a call for yourself. Obviously also no volume control per person. Imagine sitting next to your coworker in a teams meeting and having to deal with hearing them twice with like 20 ms delay. Awful.

I use it daily and think it’s excellent. Skype, on tnge other hand, is diabolical.

I can’t believe we still can’t moderate chat in a public webinar…. « Hey the guy who wrote ‘FUCK’ 20 times? Yeah you can kick him out, but make sure to keep these messages visible for all posterity »

Can’t send private messages to outsiders also. Who could EVER need this in a public event anyway?

And make sure you can’t let people join the breakout room of their choice. Take the time to individually assign them one by one before the meeting! Fun!!

Hey at least we can play Backgammon in a meeting, so there’s that right?

I have a Jabra Headset (now retired) that literally has a MS Teams logo on the side and is market as “Teams compatible”. As you might have guessed, Teams is the only VC app were I regularly have to switch betwen inputs to get the headset to work during a call.

I don’t care. I’ll take anything that maintains staff meetings from home. Before COVID they were 90% in person.

Microsoft spent billions acquiring Skype only for us to be left with Teams

Am I the only one that prefers it to Slack?

I chalk most of the shit that makes teams horrible, is closely related to electron and their whole web app as a desktop app bullshit.

Buckle up, because they’re doing that same enshittification to outlook next. It’s already begun. There’s a “new” Outlook. FML.

Thank you! Finally someone has the guts to say this publicly

The fact that me and a coworker can’t both share our screens at the same time is absolutely batshit. 1x1 collaboration isn’t even reasonable, nevermind anything more

I work in IT. I think it’s popular because it’s “free”.

With that said, I put up a picture on the office wall of a Swiss army knife with features like syringe, fire extinguisher, axe, etc and have it labeled Microsoft Teams. Yes, it can do 100 different tasks, fucking poorly.

that is because theyre selling it to the business, not the end user. They dont give 2 fucks about your experience

As with all things in business, good enough is king

I actually don’t mind it being web based, there are a lot of web based tools that run perfectly fine and don’t use that much resource

Teams is generally stable for me running the pwa in Microsoft edge nowadays too

I keep a Teams tab and an Outlook tab opened in Firefox on Linux at work, and I feel like I have a better experience than most people using it on windows, which seems crazy.