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> Microsoft Teams is almost too professional Teams target is Corporations so it should be professional? Microsoft has tries to make Teams "less professional"

> Microsoft Teams is almost too professional Teams target is Corporations so it should be professional? Microsoft has tries to make Teams "less professional" or more causal and people hate the changes. They recently changed the theme of the emoticons "Microsoft Fluent Emojis were brought to life to embrace expressiveness and play" they seem to be well received by non-professional users, or even professionals in "creative" fields, but for traditional corporate users they look terrible and are not well received at all, the feedback asking for the return of the traditional emojis has 10's of thousands of votes. for work I want a professional platform, I want teams to be a professional tool for professionals

insightcheck 4y ago
Microsoft is in a tough place in that respect, because its user base is so broad by design (as a default program in Windows 11 now). It can never be fully optimized for professionals in formal environments, nor professionals who prefer more casual environments. This Pirates of Silicon Valley scene comes to mind [0]. Teams may not be the most optimized software for formal versus informal users, but that doesn't matter because it's trying to have a broad appeal. https://youtu.be/UFcb-XF1RPQ?t=131 https://youtu.be/UFcb-XF1RPQ?t=131
- phpisthebest 4y ago
  They are in a tough space by their own making because they keep refusing what the market has been telling them for decades. They need to SEPARATE their consumer making business from their Corporate business. For example Lync was separate from Skype... Business and Consumer Then they got rid of Lync in favor of Skype for business... Bad Then comes Teams, designed from the Ground up for Corporate. Dropping Skype for Business like many many wanted, a separate corporate app Now with Win11 they are making the same mistake again with "Teams" the default app in windows 11, which is different client than the "business teams app" and at launch could not even connect to organizational teams tenants only "Microsoft" teams accounts which should be called Skype.... Skype should remain the consumer / family platform, if they want to bring "teams like" features to that great. Teams should remain a business app

insightcheck 4y ago

Microsoft is in a tough place in that respect, because its user base is so broad by design (as a default program in Windows 11 now). It can never be fully optimized for professionals in formal environments, nor professionals who prefer more casual environments. This Pirates of Silicon Valley scene comes to mind [0]. Teams may not be the most optimized software for formal versus informal users, but that doesn't matter because it's trying to have a broad appeal. https://youtu.be/UFcb-XF1RPQ?t=131 https://youtu.be/UFcb-XF1RPQ?t=131

phpisthebest 4y ago
They are in a tough space by their own making because they keep refusing what the market has been telling them for decades. They need to SEPARATE their consumer making business from their Corporate business. For example Lync was separate from Skype... Business and Consumer Then they got rid of Lync in favor of Skype for business... Bad Then comes Teams, designed from the Ground up for Corporate. Dropping Skype for Business like many many wanted, a separate corporate app Now with Win11 they are making the same mistake again with "Teams" the default app in windows 11, which is different client than the "business teams app" and at launch could not even connect to organizational teams tenants only "Microsoft" teams accounts which should be called Skype.... Skype should remain the consumer / family platform, if they want to bring "teams like" features to that great. Teams should remain a business app