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Because it is free with Office 365. That's the whole problem with Teams, because they get to ride O365's coattails they don't really /try/. The fact it is bett

Because it is free with Office 365. That's the whole problem with Teams, because they get to ride O365's coattails they don't really /try/. The fact it is better than Skype for Business is more an indictment of how bad S4B was, not an actual defense of Teams as a stand-alone product/app. Let's look at the popular things they haven't done: - Show video for all people in Video meeting: Created 2016. 37K votes. "In the backlog." - Multi-window for chats and more: Created 2016. 17K votes. "Internal testing." - Compact mode: Created 2016. 16K votes. "Not even in the backlog, we cannot figure it out" (in spite of multiple third party CSS hacks that accomplish it convincingly). - Move a project (channel) from one team to another: Created 2016. 15K votes. "In the backlog." But don't take my word for it, review what they have actually accomplished from their own UserVoice here: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public But it is popular because it is free and bundled with something successful, so the Teams team can sit around for four years with little to show for it. When will Teams actually be good when measured against the market rather than the [worse] thing it replaced?

blub 7y ago
The fact that it's a web-app in disguise certainly doesn't make the above easier. I've seen so many UI bugs and weirdness in this software. The only thing that reliably worked so far is calling.
jlack 7y ago
My problem with it is that Teams fails to do what Skype/Lync did do well, while trying to mimic slack and not achieving that very well either. For instance you can't break out individual chat windows to take up less space. Dial-in numbers for meetings aren't there by default either, you need individual licenses - which is probably why it's 'free'.

blub 7y ago

The fact that it's a web-app in disguise certainly doesn't make the above easier. I've seen so many UI bugs and weirdness in this software. The only thing that reliably worked so far is calling.

jlack 7y ago

My problem with it is that Teams fails to do what Skype/Lync did do well, while trying to mimic slack and not achieving that very well either. For instance you can't break out individual chat windows to take up less space. Dial-in numbers for meetings aren't there by default either, you need individual licenses - which is probably why it's 'free'.