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by m348e912 874 days ago
I am sheepishly going to chime in and say I recognize many of ms teams shortcomings but I actually cringe when I have to join meetings on zoom or god forbid, webex. Joining meetings in teams and sharing screen works decently well for me and I do it enough that I am fairly satisfied with it.

Could it be lighter weight? Yeah for sure. But I am definitely not running into the same issues that some people are seeing on this thread.

What I have recognized is that if you don't have teams installed and have to join a teams meeting via your browser, it might work like 10% of the time.

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I think teams is fine for meetings, but I shudder in cold sweat at the thought of using it for chat as well (instead of Slack).
I will say that WebEx has worked every time I've used it.
I think they’ve improved since 2021, but back then when someone sent me a webex invitation I’d feel secondhand embarrassment for them. It was BY FAR the worst of the videoconferencing platforms despite having a huge head start.
The new (non-electron) Teams 2.0 is lighter weight and subjectively feels more responsive, fwiw.
The only difference I've noticed is that I no longer get notifications that meetings have started, and also no longer have the ability to check if a meeting has started.
Is that some sort of beta application or is everyone using that by default? Mine on macOS says classic Microsoft teams.