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by nunez 805 days ago
I want to join a meeting.

I open Teams. First, Teams opens two windows. Why?

Afterwards, Teams finds my audio devices. This works sporadically.

I join the meeting. The audio input device I chose isn't sending audio for some reason. Need to close Teams completely and join again.

I am finally in the meeting.

If I join from my iOS mobile, chances are good that I'll be able to join, but exiting and re-entering the app will put me back on the login screen. While I can get back into the meeting by typing anything into the Name text box, it's still bad UX.

Then there's screen sharing. When it works, there's no guarantee that it will keep working for the entire meeting. Especially on mobile. It will die for no reason.

Zoom has none of these problems.

But Zoom is expensive because Teams comes with Office 365 for free. Just like Google Chat and Meet (two other not-so-great collaboration tools) come with Workspace.