Out of curiosity are any similar products actually good? My company uses Webex and frankly I'd rather use teams.
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2024
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Zoom and Google Meets have both worked better for me.
My company switched from WebEx to Teams and while Teams is not great it's way better than WebEx.
Within my actual team we just use Slack Huddles unless we have to record. For my personal stuff I prefer Jitsi.
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I dont know.. SharePoint has pissed me the hell off too, its a close one
Fun fact, teams backend is sharepoint. It's just a fancy wrapper on top 🤡
Well now I just feel bad for the team behind teams 🤣
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No, no! Dogshit sometimes fertilizes and promotes growth. Microsoft teams is poison.
For the budding gardeners who might see this, do not use dogshit as fertilizer for the plants you eat.
Hey, poison has it's uses too, unlike Teams.
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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.
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I don’t care. I’ll take anything that maintains staff meetings from home. Before COVID they were 90% in person.
Yup. It’s got a stupid amount of bloat for what it is used for, but it’s aggressively “okay.”
Will take it everyday of the week instead of taking meetings in person.
Yup, it does exactly what I want it to do: link scheduled meetings to my Outlook calendar (corp requirement) and let me join from a notification box. We have Slack for everything else.
It's not great, but it's certainly okay. Call quality is fine, the chat is crappy but gets the job done (supports links, files, and plain text, which is enough), and audio/camera settings are surprisingly decent. It works well for our use-case, which is scheduled meetings. Impromptu (i.e. useful) meetings happen over Slack.
"aggressively okay" is the best description i've ever head of MS teams
I no longer work with corporations, but an online ornithology classI did used teams. It worked, mostly, for a while. Then one day it decided that video would no longer work on my machine. Of course there's no obvious log or anything.
I even booted windows to see if it would fix it, but no.
That was on a very exotic yoga 7 pro laptop.
It's the only piece of software that's ever behaved that way.
Genuinely the single worst messaging app I've ever used. Worse than Skype, which is crazy because Microsoft owns that too.
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Microsoft spent billions acquiring Skype only for us to be left with Teams
I use it daily and think it's excellent. Skype, on the other hand, is diabolical.
🌈You’re insane💫
It's like a graveyard of companies that Microsoft has acquired over the years. Sharing files is one brand name (Sharepoint if i recall), making video calls is another name, planned events is another - every function has a brand name to it, which made me feel like these were the last remaining trace of long-absorbed companies.
But that's just my recollection, i haven't touched Teams since Covid
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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?