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> Do people actually enjoy using Teams? Yes, I do. I think it's great. I agree that it's a bit of a resource hog, and I agree that the search isn't particularl
by rkangel 6y ago
> Do people actually enjoy using Teams?
Yes, I do. I think it's great. I agree that it's a bit of a resource hog, and I agree that the search isn't particularly wonderful, but none of those impact my day-to-day experience (which is about 50% in Teams at the moment).
Some things that I like:
* The 'conversation' system works extremely well to keep discussion grouped by topic so you don't get the Slack issue of having to read every message of the last 3 days to see the 25% that relate to you. Yes Slack has threads, but I have yet to encounter a channel where they were used consistently well.
* The seamless transition from chatting to voice/video chatting smooths co-working. We have several team members who have joined since the start of lock-down and the low barrier to starting a video call smooths the process of me supporting them and helping them feel part of a team.
* We are a consultancy so the multiple 'Teams' concept maps well on to each client project giving us good organisation of conversation and data.
The performance issue does rear it's head when I'm screen sharing - my WfH solution involves an x240 plugged into a large monitor and it struggles to both encode that and do whatever else I want to do. Zoom is similar but not as bad. Otherwise it works well.