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by pjmlp 1500 days ago
I used to hate Slack, then I got involved with some projects that require Teams,....
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It's baffling the degree to which Teams doesn't work on a purely technical basis, before UI and UX even come into play.

Half an hour ago I accepted an invitation to join a Team. Logged into MS in the browser, checked remember me, and then... a naked JSON response. It had a field "result", value "Success". Good! What now? Nothing else happened.

I firmly believe Teams is only usable if you're a Microsoft shop (don't even think about Firefox and friends) and is managed by a central IT (I somehow have two MS accounts under the same [work] email and no idea which is which). Don't get me started on being on Teams as an external employee.

Things like Slack just work much more and are much less surprising in their behaviour.

Microsoft shops are one of our customer bases, and that doesn't make me like Teams any better.

I cannot understand how the Teams team does their product management.

I'm fairly certain this feeling is ubiquitous across anyone and everyone who's had to transition from Slack to Teams.