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> Teams is good enough. Man, them's fightin words ;-). Teams is atrocious, like it is stuck back in the 90s. It's only popuplar because Microsoft gives it aw
by rootusrootus 3y ago
> Teams is good enough.
Man, them's fightin words ;-).
Teams is atrocious, like it is stuck back in the 90s. It's only popuplar because Microsoft gives it away. For all of it's warts I'd take Slack back in a heartbeat.
- ics 3y agoI'd bet that 90% of Teams users had never used Slack and never would have through their employers. To them, Teams is like all software in that everybody can complain but it's still much more advanced than... Lync.
- Spivak 3y agoTeams << Slack < Discord when it comes to chat but it's still Slack << Teams < Zoom for video which is where I see it displacing competitors the most. If your office has a culture of email for written communication and the chat feature is sparingly used and mostly for quick 1-1 messages or "can I call you?" then it's passable.
- rootusrootus 3y agoI wonder how long before our IT folks switch us to using Teams for video. Mid-2020 we switched to Zoom (from Webex, before Cisco decided to make it a copy of Zoom) for video, along with Slack (from HipChat). The combo of Slack+Zoom worked fairly well. And I got very reliant on the Slack plugin for Outlook to keep me on schedule. Now we're on Teams, which I still find frustrating on a daily basis, but still using Zoom for video. And Microsoft's own calendar integration for Teams is not at all as good as the plugin for Slack was, so I'm back to hit-or-miss for my scheduling. Not the most onerous of problems, for sure, but I'm not liking how much our IT department is clamping down on everything. Between cost cutting on software and the myriad malware packages they install to monitor our MacBooks, I'm not their biggest fan.
- Tommstein 3y agoWhy do you have to insult '90s software like that? Software back then was fast and functional.