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I use MS Teams in my company, seems to work very well, great quality video, I’m don’t fully understand the security issues with Zoom, so I’m curious, does anyon

I use MS Teams in my company, seems to work very well, great quality video, I’m don’t fully understand the security issues with Zoom, so I’m curious, does anyone know how MS Teams compares to Zoom?? The school my kids go to (in Portugal) also use Teams, for online learning, seems to be working well for them now. (Europe had issues a few weeks ago with Teams, when most of the schools first closed)

LatteLazy 7y ago
I believe... MS Teams is better but you have to pay for it (and maybe it's complex to implement too). Zoom is free (and supports large numbers of participants which other free alternatives don't). Also meetings can be setup with about 4 mouse clicks by the user himself with no other kit than a browser in Zoom. Getting your art department home workers to correctly It has been weird watching people insist we use zoom because it supports so many users, when there are only three of us actually in a meeting. So the cynic in my suspects it's being used by (say) schools and universities (as the Skype limit was 32 people, now 50). And other people have assumed it's better since Harvard\Cambridge use it, so now they use it for 4 people...
- garyclarke27 7y ago
  Thanks - Teams is surprisingly easy (for a Microsoft product) to set up a glitch free video conference call. I was curious how secure it is? Its free with an Office 365 subscription and they are quite cheap, office is pretty much essential for most businesses, I think schools get it very cheap or even for free.
gnud 7y ago
The issue with Teams is the issue all modern Microsoft services have: Their account systems are really confusing, and they actively make it worse in the UI. I have 4 different accounts that have access to different Teams instances. They all have my full name, and therefore the same initials. There is no way to tell which account you are logged in as, in the UI. A couple of months ago, they finally fixed the "log out and log in as a different user" flow so it actually did something for me. Before that, it would log out, and then just automatically log back in as the same user. You can't (as far as I can tell) run two instances as different users at the same time. I join most Teams meetings as "guest" on my phone. That works OK, but it doesn't really say much good about the Windows app.

LatteLazy 7y ago

I believe... MS Teams is better but you have to pay for it (and maybe it's complex to implement too). Zoom is free (and supports large numbers of participants which other free alternatives don't). Also meetings can be setup with about 4 mouse clicks by the user himself with no other kit than a browser in Zoom. Getting your art department home workers to correctly It has been weird watching people insist we use zoom because it supports so many users, when there are only three of us actually in a meeting. So the cynic in my suspects it's being used by (say) schools and universities (as the Skype limit was 32 people, now 50). And other people have assumed it's better since Harvard\Cambridge use it, so now they use it for 4 people...

garyclarke27 7y ago
Thanks - Teams is surprisingly easy (for a Microsoft product) to set up a glitch free video conference call. I was curious how secure it is? Its free with an Office 365 subscription and they are quite cheap, office is pretty much essential for most businesses, I think schools get it very cheap or even for free.

gnud 7y ago

The issue with Teams is the issue all modern Microsoft services have: Their account systems are really confusing, and they actively make it worse in the UI. I have 4 different accounts that have access to different Teams instances. They all have my full name, and therefore the same initials. There is no way to tell which account you are logged in as, in the UI. A couple of months ago, they finally fixed the "log out and log in as a different user" flow so it actually did something for me. Before that, it would log out, and then just automatically log back in as the same user. You can't (as far as I can tell) run two instances as different users at the same time. I join most Teams meetings as "guest" on my phone. That works OK, but it doesn't really say much good about the Windows app.