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"for the sole purpose of video conferencing". They're still using slack for day-to-day...

I had to use Teams for a couple of months with a client. It's not great but it's not terrible. I do miss days of Zoom but I opened it recently and found apps listed during the call of sudden - felt like bloatware.

Not sure what you missed about Zoom. It's works, but doesn't feel smooth and seems to have a very big footprint for something with a specific use-case.

In particular, my day job is at a big corpo office space style place, and the software that requires the most updates is Zoom. I don't get why. It's also a lot less simple to use than Google Meet

One of my clients insist on using Zoom. I have never installed it (after so many security issues in the earlier days, I'd rather not risk it). I just use it from the browser.

Every time I click to open a meeting it downloads the installer, which IMO is a horrible dark pattern. I despise them as a company, and don't find their product anything special.

That said, using it on the browser has an effectively null footprint and doesn't require updates.

Step 1 towards, "we will be using Teams for day-to-day collaboration".

Embrace Teams for video conferencing, Extend Teams to day-to-day collaboration, Extinguish Slack. That's not how Embrace-Extend-Extinquish worked traditionally but it still fits.

This is why I'm so happy to be in all *nix ecosystem for our infra. Some microsoft products work really well but they all have this tendency to metastasize and you'll get vendor locked to MS.

Which implies they were using some third tool, Zoom say, right? (I mean, assuming the cost-saving isn't switching to free-tier Slack!) Seems weird to me to introduce Teams as the mandatory change rather than switch it to be done in Slack, which they already have.

I guess it could have been worse. It could have been Skype for Business.

Nobody tell him what the underlying technology of Teams calling is.

At least that's a native app (or was?)

Yeah, that was interesting. I wonder if Teams have acquired the feature that Google Meet have to extremely simply setup a meeting and just do it all in the browser. The quality of the video and audio is fine in Teams, it's all the surrounding stuff that's wonky.

So it they can easily create a meeting without using the Teams client, then it might be just fine.

So the official meetings will be in teams and the important meetings in Slack huddles?

Does teams allow you to draw on the screen?

> Does teams allow you to draw on the screen?

i mean; no one can really tell you what to do with your sharpie.

(but yes; that's been baked in for a while)

Only on a freeze frame of the screen though. Not like in a slack huddle.

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