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Yup, almost everyone at MS is using Teams internally. When they collaborate externally they use whatever the partner prefers. For example, there is a Discord se

Yup, almost everyone at MS is using Teams internally. When they collaborate externally they use whatever the partner prefers. For example, there is a Discord server for ReactNative contributors and collaborators with a bunch of MS folks on it. I guess it's also possible there's a Team for Meta folks to talk to MS directly but I somehow doubt it - or at least, I doubt it gets used very much if it exists :)

JohnFen 4y ago
> Yup, almost everyone at MS is using Teams internally Really? So they have to know how awful it is. That makes its continued awfulness even more perplexing.
- executesorder66 4y ago
  Really? With the exception of Office I can't think of a single microsoft product that could ever be considered "good". They have consistently crapped out sub-par products for decades. It would be perplexing if they could actually get any IM software to a good state. This is their 3rd one. They even bought arguably the best one in the world (Skype) in 2009. Which was "coincidentally" the year that Skype usage fell of a cliff.
  - wizofaus 4y ago
    Have you never used Visual Studio or VS Code? Would you consider C#/.NET or TypeScript to be products? Having worked with various developer-centric tools across Windows, MacOS and Linux for the last 20 odd years, if I ever felt MS consistently dumped sub-par products on its userbase I'd happily walk away and use alternatives. Teams is one of the few of their products I regularly resent being forced to work with, and would never recommend it if I were in the position to (and yes, Skype for Business would be next on the list).
    - executesorder66 4y ago
      Okay I concede that Visual Studio is also good. VS code is another crappy electron app. Why anyone would want to use electron for a text editor is beyond me. C#/.NET are crap. Especially .NET. And a programming language that is not cross-platfrom is a joke. I know they have made some efforts to get it to work on other OS's but those are just as crappy as all their other stuff. Nothing wrong with typescript, but I don't really see it as any kind of innovation. It's just JS with some guardrails.

JohnFen 4y ago

> Yup, almost everyone at MS is using Teams internally Really? So they have to know how awful it is. That makes its continued awfulness even more perplexing.

executesorder66 4y ago
Really? With the exception of Office I can't think of a single microsoft product that could ever be considered "good". They have consistently crapped out sub-par products for decades. It would be perplexing if they could actually get any IM software to a good state. This is their 3rd one. They even bought arguably the best one in the world (Skype) in 2009. Which was "coincidentally" the year that Skype usage fell of a cliff.
- wizofaus 4y ago
  Have you never used Visual Studio or VS Code? Would you consider C#/.NET or TypeScript to be products? Having worked with various developer-centric tools across Windows, MacOS and Linux for the last 20 odd years, if I ever felt MS consistently dumped sub-par products on its userbase I'd happily walk away and use alternatives. Teams is one of the few of their products I regularly resent being forced to work with, and would never recommend it if I were in the position to (and yes, Skype for Business would be next on the list).
  - executesorder66 4y ago
    Okay I concede that Visual Studio is also good. VS code is another crappy electron app. Why anyone would want to use electron for a text editor is beyond me. C#/.NET are crap. Especially .NET. And a programming language that is not cross-platfrom is a joke. I know they have made some efforts to get it to work on other OS's but those are just as crappy as all their other stuff. Nothing wrong with typescript, but I don't really see it as any kind of innovation. It's just JS with some guardrails.