It is (by far) the most horrific piece of software I'm forced to used, the UI/UX is confusing, it's a battery killer, eats all the ram (though - that's common with all electron garbage), it somehow manages to make Bluetooth headsets drop out, it significantly impacts network performance when sharing video, a lot of bugs in the calendaring system.... I could go on, but damn I just hate it.
Teams is the only application that consistently has trouble finding any audio devices because it decides to manage them itself, poorly, instead of relying on system defaults.
Audio works in every other application, but sometimes Teams just decides it can't find any audio interface. Or worse, it finds one but decides "It's not working" and refuses to use it.
Using Teams in the browser is then a possible solution.
I agree so much! It is baffling to me that so many companies/schools/individuals are actively using it. It is _so_ _bad_. Messages are lost, it reboots spontaneously, it crashes, one cannot turn off emoticons (I think (the UI doesn't help)), etc. It does not even take security seriously. What is good about that software?
And then when I talk about this with colleagues, they seem to be just fine with it...
Anyway, sorry about the rant. But it is just so nice to see that there are other people also dissatisfied with it, and that is not just me.
The reason people use it is because either they don’t have a say in it or they legitimately never used anything better (such as Slack or the lesser-known competitors like Mattermost).
If your benchmark is Skype for Business or email then I guess Teams is indeed an upgrade, and Microsoft is betting on that.
Literally every time I type in ``` I get different behavior, depending on what mood it’s in. And some days it stops getting updates, especially if you’ve got the mobile version running too. Step out for a moment and someone asks you a question? Well good luck getting it to show up in a device with a real keyboard.
