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I know we like to hate on Google here but Google Meet is much better imo.
I'm a Slack guy, when forced to use Teams it just always tried to get in the way of anything I wanted to do and Slack would get out of the way.
Sadly Slack are busy trying to make Slack as obnoxious as Teams.
For a counterpoint, my wife loves Teams. She uses it all day every day, and only has good things to say about it.
Today, this morning:
It wouldn't let me into my morning meeting, it glitched out with jumping ellipses. I quit the program then when I tried to relaunch it went into a cycle of starting then immediately crash. This went on for two minutes before I restarted the computer. After restarting the computer then relaunched Teams it proceeded to crash/start four times before loading so I can attend my meeting.
This kind of stuff is habitual. I now set alarms five minutes before meetings so I have enough time to press a button.
I’ve only experienced it from Linux and it’s a huge exercise in pain. It sometimes works, but it’s just stacks and stacks of hacks.
All the other things I’ve used work for video conferencing have worked fine in Linux or a browser.
Why is teams terrible?
Why can I see multiple calendars in outlook but only see my calendar in teams? How does that make it useful to schedule team meetings?
Why are updates always available even though I just updated?
Why can I only pin one post in a group chat?
Why does teams always use its own audio settings over the system settings?
Why haven’t they implemented proper push to talk?
Why is it that every few updates one of my meeting members randomly gets muted?
Why does “Meet Now” basically accomplish what a group call does but the notifications don’t really go out?
Why do I need to”Apps” in my teams?
After my call hangs up because the phone app is having issues, how come the other person could still see and hear me?
Why do you assume I want to use onedrive?
Why can’t my favorites also appear in chats in a chronological order?
Why is @everyone even a feature? This isn’t discord.
I've used it at work for the past 6 years and it's just quite buggy. Sending an image only works around 50% of the time, calls go directly to voice mail despite the other person being there and waiting for my call, mobile app shows me being in a call I've left hours earlier, tabs with things like checklists never load etc. I've used worse programs, but it's far from good. On a positive note though, the background noise filter in Teams is the best I've heard.
Lately the reason that I hate it is that when I click on the channel and start typing, it starts browsing through the channel link instead of putting what I type into the channel. And it's intermittent, so much more infuriating.
People love to hate Teams but I also think it’s more maligned than it deserves.
It’s mostly fine for me most of the time. It could be that I just haven’t had the pleasure of using better options so I don’t know what I’m missing? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I do have to say it’s infinitely better in my experience than Zoom. Whenever I have a Zoom meeting the experience for me is so bad I am essentially unable to participate in the meeting.
Its super slow, one of the biggest misuses of electron I have seen. The website unironically works better than than the app. It seems to subtly break in weird ways every new release. Reactions are notifications. And the whole old/new teams thing causes a whole lot of confusion.
Reactions are notifications only by default, you can go turn those off in the settings. Easy enough.
Because it's run by Microsoft, which is now a Big Data player. They use Teams to "monetize" your company's data and train their AI on it without your company's consent. They use Teams to collect data on employees who don't have a choice because they need a job to put food on the table, like real name, photo and phone number.
If you don't want to give any data to Microsoft, too bad: your employer forces it on you. Don't like it? Your only option is to resign. That's the most egregious aspect of Teams - and Office 365, and all business-oriented Microsoft data honeypots: they use employers to collect data on employees who don't have any say about it.
Anything you do at work while being paid isn't yours, you're being paid for your time and effort and the company owns that. Any data collected isn't really about "you" as a person, so it's irrelevant to you in the long-term.
I’m going to come from a different angle.
I spent 20 years in IT before Teams and now work for a government agency in health care.
My IT side says that teams is just OK like its competitors. It’s not great, but it’s not horrible either. It does the job and some of the annoyances are probably due to the demographic using it - people who don’t care for tech nor the meeting.
My employee side doesn’t see a technical deficit in Teams that isn’t in Zoom or whatever, but holy shit does M$ turn their product to shit by buzzword. Teams this. Teams that. Hit me on Teams.
So yeah. IMHO Teams is bad for the same reason Office is bad. Technically OK, bloated, and catering to the managers.
