I don't know if it's that lucky. My company is on M365 and Teams just works. Granted, we're all on Windows and the tenant is all cloud, which is the ideal case.

I don't know if it's that lucky. My company is on M365 and Teams just works. Granted, we're all on Windows and the tenant is all cloud, which is the ideal case. But people here are far too quick to generalize their own bad experiences as being indicative of everyone's, and their own good experiences with eg. Zoom as being the normal case. I've been a guest to both Teams and Zoom presentations, for example, and the Teams ones have gone without a hitch but the chat in the Zoom ones was a terrible, jittery mess (the video itself was fine). Teams also yields far more cleanly to wanting to join a meeting with the web app than Zoom does - we all know the company's shenanigans on that end. For pure chat, Slack does beat Teams IME. The biggest thing is that the channels are ideally used in a more email-like fashion with dedicated topics, kind of what Doist is driving for with Twist, while Slack is just plain group chat. But overall I've had just about nothing but good experiences with Teams - mobile-desktop handoffs or just adding the phone to not drop out while you're getting coffee is smooth, it doesn't crash, calls work well, managing team tasks in Planner, barebones as it is, is really convenient, as is having team notebooks etc. (though Loop will likely take over that). As said, being a no account guest on meetings and webinars has been easy and worked well. The primary issue is just that the fucker's stupidly heavy.