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Teams sucks. Yammer sucks. They are both has-been afterthoughts as far as tools that actually solve problems well. They are only used in megacorporations where Microsoft has the corp by the balls with AD/Azure AD and Office.

I guess I am the only person in the world (according to HN) who doesn't hate Teams. Sure, it's klunky at times. But I use it on windows and on mac and I join lots of meetings with it. It consistently works well, the audio/video is solid, I have a better user experience as a presenter compared to using zoom. I'm not looking to get into a virtual meeting software war, I just wanted to point out that not everyone hates teams.

I've heard those positive sentiments before and I'm glad it is a better product for some people.

One of the features that kills me about Teams though is that I'm not able to join from Firefox.

Count me in as well, I'm fine with it too. I'm in a larger corp and we're all Microsoft/Office/AD of course, and it does the job. Meeting invites work across Outlook and shared calendars/status and the reminders pop up on time. We don't use video much so for audio conferencing it's good.

It's just a tool, no tool is perfect, but this one works just fine.

The funny part is that for larger meetings and all-hands the company uses a completely different web-based system, and it's a piece of shit.

Yep, I think people are just trying to be edgy or whatever. Teams is also a huge success at 270 MAU. It's clunky but it works every single time. Sure sometimes it feels like it's using a lot of resources for whatever reason but that's about the only complaint I have.

I think it especially works well when you exclude it from Windows Defender, I reckon most people having issues don't actually make a reasonable thought/config change before they get a knee jerk reaction to something.

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