This isn't an unpopular take but yeah I'll take Teams over Zoom every single time. Plus having a chat feature beats having to email every single back and forth.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I'm also working in software, and never had either of those problems. If anything, I imagine you'd be very familiar with the "it works fine on my machine" effect, and its opposite. Better to have ugly ways to type code into chat than no way at all.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Works great for me. I don't know what problems people have so I won't say they're invalid, but yeah for meetings and calls and screen sharing and tracking stuff, seems to work just fine. I use it for hours every day.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

But perfect, but indeed not bad. I still couldn't give a way to put a status on myself, though. For instance, saying that I work remotely that day is not possible out of the box.

by EffectiveEagle7379 1 month ago

I have used a lot of alternatives to Teams. Usually multiple at the same time because none provided all of the same features that Teams provides. I definitely have complaints sometimes, mostly with stability, but it's world's better than anything else I've used.

by Fun-Cardiologist-759 1 month ago

Teams on a functional level is good. But its optimised horribly.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I think software optimization is one of the most widely misunderstood concepts in computing (by end users) and makes an easy/convenient explanation when there isn't another way to articulate why someone doesn't like some software.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I think teams should be more lightweight then it is, shouldn't take up so much ram and cpu. it doesn't really make any difference on a mid to high end pc but school pcs would run noticeably slower if teams was open, never had this problem with any other software.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Teams doesn't work well on iPhones. I think that is the biggest complaint from people. The two systems don't mesh well. I actually like Teams. I can make a meeting and just click on the link from the calendar without having to copy and paste the link and give any special commands. The biggest reason people don't use it in my department is that we were given iPhones and there's something about it where it crashes when you open it in the iPhone. In order for me to use it on my personal phone, I would have to agree to give my job COMPLETE CONTROL over my phone and that is SO NOT happening. So Zoom it is, until we all either get Android or Windows phones or they do away with the complete control aspect (which ain't happening either).

by Current-Ad694 1 month ago

My only issue is the 45 second startup time where it bogs down the entire pc. But that's likely due to enterprise implementation, encryption, yadayada. Everything else is largely indistinguishable from any other such program we've all used for a decade.

by Moniquelindgren 1 month ago

Works well enough for me most days but this past few weeks has been a real struggle. I have no idea if this is the cause but our company is in the process of upgrading to windows 11 but it's from our download center on our server and "at your own pace until x date". So half the company still has a different OS. You would think that means nothing but it seems like any call between the two different OS makes the program unusable.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Pros and cons with teams vs other similar software. I will say that teams phones are horrible for us. Half the time they go down or just flat out refuse to work properly. Zoom phone is fantastic and haven't had issues like some of our counterparts who use teams phones. Teams is great for collaboration and I like the chat and integrations with the other Microsoft products, but only if you use the apps and basically live in them. For most of our org it's a huge waste and really only looks pretty to most. Starting to get into clipchamp and it's integrations, it looks fun and real similar to camtasia, so it's easy to train people on how to use it and the other applications in the Microsoft suite. We also have old grandfathered pricing for zoom where as it will cost us more to fully switch all our employees to teams. We'll see what the future holds though. I don't like that I don't have the settings and flexibility in support in teams like I do in zoom. Zoom let's you fine tune all kinds of settings for each individual user or org as a whole. Teams I can't do that much.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I had no idea people complained about this. It's a super solid platform

by Anonymous 1 month ago