It’s the worst at everything it tries to do
That’s not true. It’s good at working with other Microsoft apps, and only Microsoft apps, not anything Unix. Like PowerPoint… except of course when you try to present in Teams from PowerPoint, that usually doesn’t work.
Not even all Microsoft Apps, either. There’s deliberately little integration with things like desktop Outlook, instead forcing more OWA shit.
Now it’s basically just Edge. In the same was “New” Outlook is just Edge. I swear to god, everything on Windows is eventually just going to be a Edge dressed up like an app.
It really wants me to host a webinar. I get a pop-up every day telling me about how great this function supposedly is. You’d think there was a VC generative AI project attached to it with how hard it’s being pushed.
I’ll put up with it but has their ever been a person who wanted the document to open as a modal window inside Teams where you can’t even go back to the chat of the person who sent it without closing it?
So you have to open in browser and then open the browser version in desktop.
I don’t really hate Teams but that really triggers me. Otherwise I feel like Teams and I have a lot in common (like the whole tried to do too much and so does nothing well thing).
I’m kinda glad I lost my job at the beginning of COVID, we were preparing to move to Teams.
If you only use it to do video (optional) calls with a handful of people and share screens it is passable. I kind of like it for that, just a phone replacement with optional video and screen sharing.
Anything beyond that though, bleah.
It gets used as the in-house chat client at my place of employment. I work in a rural area in an old building so cell service is spotty at best, so it’s handy to be able to shoot a chat to anyone instead of an email or walking over to their office.
So much corporate misery channeled into a single app
It’s funny, we use it lightly for it’s intended purpose. I work in person on the ground and so do most people in the company. We’re spread wide geographically. I like what teams has done for us. We use it sparingly.
