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by jonathantf2 1176 days ago
From the admin perspective Teams is a million times better than Slack or WebEx to set up and get going with because it's all built in, works really well.

From a user perspective it sucks mainly due to the bloated nature of the app, I've used other Electron apps that feel snappy but Teams just takes forever to do anything. Hopefully this refresh on WebView2 will make it so it doesn't take multiple seconds to display that I've sent a message.
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JohnFen 1176 days ago
> From a user perspective it sucks mainly due to the bloated nature of the app

I'd be fine with the bloated nature of the app if it otherwise worked well. But it doesn't. The UI is a real mess. It's very confusing, easy to get stuff wrong, and is generally a real pain in the ass to use.

Since they're trumpeting "AI integration" in this version, I'm not very hopeful that 2.0 will have fixed the real issues with Teams.

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soundnote 1174 days ago
They actually fixed the channels' threaded UI so it defaults to an expanded, start a topic type posting interface and made the thread list not look like Skype anymore, so people should actually start using it correctly.
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hulitu 1176 days ago
> From the admin perspective Teams is a million times better than Slack or WebEx to set up and get going with

"Search for Teams in company's approve SW instalation list, no hit. Asked a coleague: How do i install Teams. Answer: Just download it from the Internet, that's what IT told me. "

So i am not able to install any non aproved SW but i shall download Teams from the internet and run it ?

So long with security.

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dzhiurgis 1176 days ago
> Bloated

As much as I hate teams - it's not that bad regarding bloat.

Slack web app right now is using 1gb (safari), 230 mb (brave) and 150 mb (brave).

Teams web app is using 600mb (brave).

Overall UX is horrible - can't easily insert image or code snippet, there are multiple people under same name in search that you can't reach for some reason. I was impressed by some features like meeting transcription - seemed to work flawlessly.

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