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Except Teams existed before things got all COVIDy. Back then I even defended Teams when we had just moved off Slack. I mean, it wasn't great and the Mac client

Except Teams existed before things got all COVIDy. Back then I even defended Teams when we had just moved off Slack. I mean, it wasn't great and the Mac client blows goats, but it gets the job done. And then we all started working from home, and using Teams for more than just a glorified chat app. That's when it became evident to me that my defense of Teams was way unwarranted.

quartesixte 5y ago
Our company uses teams more or less as a glorified chat app and it does a good job at it. Teams is also the default way we call each other (phone number syncing is hot garbage and everyone has unlimited data on their work phones), and video conferencing via teams is acceptable. It helps that we have a No Camera culture, so we don’t often deal with buggy video processing problems. Anything important is to be put in an email chain, and anything more permanent in the wiki system. Seriously though, hearing the travails of Slack culture causing headaches and time wasting + degrading documentation standards, I think a glorified chat app is not so bad.
- dijit 5y ago
  Have you professionally used anything other than microsoft products for internal communication?
  - quartesixte 5y ago
    To be honest, I have not. Every company I have worked for or had extensive relations with were an Outlook oriented company.
    - dijit 5y ago
      No judgement at all. I often find the people that actually enjoy teams have never really used anything other than Microsoft messaging solutions professionally. I usually speculate that it’s because people have never seen anything better than what Microsoft can put out, but there’s the possibility that the way you think about things when that’s your entire ecosystem is different than the way I do. What I’m saying is: I’m not saying that you’re wrong for liking it, I’m saying that we can be different; and the bigger annoyance is that these closed platforms do not permit client choice. Maybe.

quartesixte 5y ago

Our company uses teams more or less as a glorified chat app and it does a good job at it. Teams is also the default way we call each other (phone number syncing is hot garbage and everyone has unlimited data on their work phones), and video conferencing via teams is acceptable. It helps that we have a No Camera culture, so we don’t often deal with buggy video processing problems. Anything important is to be put in an email chain, and anything more permanent in the wiki system. Seriously though, hearing the travails of Slack culture causing headaches and time wasting + degrading documentation standards, I think a glorified chat app is not so bad.

dijit 5y ago
Have you professionally used anything other than microsoft products for internal communication?
- quartesixte 5y ago
  To be honest, I have not. Every company I have worked for or had extensive relations with were an Outlook oriented company.
  - dijit 5y ago
    No judgement at all. I often find the people that actually enjoy teams have never really used anything other than Microsoft messaging solutions professionally. I usually speculate that it’s because people have never seen anything better than what Microsoft can put out, but there’s the possibility that the way you think about things when that’s your entire ecosystem is different than the way I do. What I’m saying is: I’m not saying that you’re wrong for liking it, I’m saying that we can be different; and the bigger annoyance is that these closed platforms do not permit client choice. Maybe.