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by mhardcastle 1217 days ago
I don't disagree with the limitations of Teams, but Microsoft improved their video call/conferencing software substantially when they moved from Skype for Business to Teams. At least things haven't been entirely stagnant.
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kypro 1217 days ago
The 3 companies I've worked for over the past 5 years have used Slack for chat and teams for meetings. and to be honest that's my preferred way to work too.

Huddles are okay for internal 1-on-1 meetings, but Teams works well when you need to organise a large meeting (potentially with people outside your org).

On the other hand Teams is awful for chat. Slack has put so much care and thought into messaging that their UX is close to perfect imo.

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drewda 1217 days ago
Yes, I will give Microsoft that -- MS Teams is so much better than Skype for Business/Lync, which was a horrible piece of video conferencing software.
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AtNightWeCode 1217 days ago
But also, the volume is too low in Teams and has been since forever. Slack, Zoom, Meet and so on has this working.

Most fun thing about Teams is that it works so poorly with different accounts that everybody waits for just that guy that logs in with a non-guest account and let the herd in.

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