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My experience with MS Teams contradict what I've mostly seen on HN. Coming from a Linux background, I had lost touch with the Microsoft ecosystem for the most
by tpaschalis 8y ago
My experience with MS Teams contradict what I've mostly seen on HN.
Coming from a Linux background, I had lost touch with the Microsoft ecosystem for the most part of a decade and would actively avoid Microsoft related stuff.
When I got a new job, I had to use the whole SharePoint/O365/Teams stack, instead of Slack, in medium-sized teams. It feels much more lightweight and responsive, chat history and search works way better than Slack (for now, at least), and is miles ahead of Skype in terms of not dropping messages, and you know, actually allowing you to chat and call.
I'm not using the O365 integration extensively, and generally view/edit documents as they're supposed to (files), but in the cases I've needed to make some changes in an Excel file, I didn't have any issues.
Of course it suffers from all the problems that an ephemeral, short-term memory chat application does in an organization, but that's to be expected.
Edit : Not affiliated with MS in any way. If I can answer any questions, let me know.
- maturz 8y agoI've been using teams since launch, it's a step up from Skype for business (mostly, they have for some reason decided to drop support for talking with regular Skype). I would say tho that they are still lacking a lot of important features. You can see a lot of examples of this here: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com They can also be very slow getting around to fixing things even if they are very important. They only just recently fixed so status works and notifications stopped working for more than a week without getting fixed (patched this week).