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Microsoft Teams is long been terrible and gets worse every year. Every customer I work with that uses Teams, I loath working with or for. It's been terrible sin
by bastard_op 3y ago
Microsoft Teams is long been terrible and gets worse every year. Every customer I work with that uses Teams, I loath working with or for. It's been terrible since it was Office Communicator, then Lync, Skype for Business, and now Teams as they rebrand every few years trying to remove the old stink.
They had a Linux client for a while, but it never worked right, and still can't figure out which audio device to use, or allow you to save a setting of which one to prefer. Every call, when they work, is a scramble to figure out where your audio is routing if you happen to have multiple sound cards. Now they've even done away with the Linux client and tell you to just use the web, which guess what - has even more dysfunction, and doesn't work most of the time either. This doesn't even include the 95% of complaints that come from native Windows users, let alone the other 3rd rate citizen, Apple Mac's.
The only reason people use teams is Microsoft gives it away as the "first hit" with your enterprise licenses, and what greedy corporation doesn't enjoy free. They could pay for a good solution like Slack, but does relic management use web chat to see any value? If they're old, probably not, so free is better than not.
Now the really scary thing is enterprises are now like "we can get rid of our phones and use Teams!", when Teams _still_doesn't_work_for_everyone_. I'm waiting for the day when someone dies because they couldn't find their phone or log into their PC to start a teams call for 911, or figure out audio routing.
I've actually quit jobs and customers because OCS/Lync/Teams has made my life hell trying to work or even consult for organizations. I can't help them if they can't even help themselves to not do stupid things like use the worst common denominator of enterprise communications.