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Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

We used Teams at the last org I worked at, we rarely had issues. The UI wasn't bad in my eyes, we had integrated our phone system into teams too. Calling someone on the other side of the country via teams was simple.

Admittedly the service did get worse before I left and there were a couple of Microsoft outages which cut all our text based communications for a day (phone system still worked)

I'm using slack right now but would prefer something self-hosted but that's well out of the scope of the current mob I'm with.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

If you ever reach a point where self-hosting does become a possibility, I'd recommend checking out Mattermost.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not sure how long it's been since your last org, but a lot has changed in the Teams universe as of late (and mostly not for the better).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Eh, it works pretty well in our org. We use it for almost all of our meetings, and we have pretty much no issues. Then again, our entire team is on macOS and we have it integrated at the corporate level (so meeting rooms and whatnot use it), and it's a pretty solid experience.

My main complaints are:

chats absolutely suck
seems to use a bunch of resources
people we interview seem to have issues (I'm guessing the webapp sucks?)

We use Slack for text communication and impromptu video chats, so the chat issues don't bother me all that much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

so your main complaints are that its most basic usecase sucks, but it works quite well. which is it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Chats are not the most basic use case for Teams, meetings are. And meetings work pretty well.