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Good grief Teams is bad. Let me count the ways: It's slow – often taking many seconds to respond to clicks. For example when screen sharing, it's easy to selec
by mattkevan 6y ago
Good grief Teams is bad. Let me count the ways:
It's slow – often taking many seconds to respond to clicks. For example when screen sharing, it's easy to select the wrong window as it takes so long to populate the list. Just switching between chats or sections can be excruciatingly slow. The most common phrase said in meetings is 'Sorry, Teams is playing up'.
It's a resource hog – just having it open causes my MBP's fans to spin up like it's about to take off, reduces the battery life from a good few hours to less than 30 minutes and grinds the whole system to a halt at least once or twice a day. Was in a long workshop the other day and it actually overheated the laptop.
It's bloated – it tries to do everything, but doesn't do anything well. Video calling is okay, but the picture constantly freezes and stutters. The rest of it is an unholy mash-up of Sharepoint, Outlook and who knows what else.
It's missing basic functionality – for example, it doesn't seem to be possible to search uploaded documents. It's often easier to upload it again than browse through an unhelpful directory structure to find wherever Teams has put it.
It doesn't use native notifications – they don't respect the system-wide notification settings, don't appear in control centre like all other notifications, and are often obscured by the macOS native ones.
Oh, and did I mention it's a buggy, bloated mess?