I am using Teams and I don't know what feature people are missing from the video call functionality?
Like...all these products do video calls fine. They all seem to work. What's the killer feature that one has that the others don't?
Like...all these products do video calls fine. They all seem to work. What's the killer feature that one has that the others don't?
No, they don't. Teams does not work at all on MacOS with Intel silicon, just for starters.
That's not helpful when you're trying to chat with someone who for whatever reason is stuck with a MacBook. This is why Zoom is so great: you can actually count on it working with everyone's computer. With everything else, there always seems to be some combination of hardware+OS+browser that just doesn't work. That's completely unacceptable for a video chat platform that needs to be usable by everyone. If you're just chatting with one or two friends, one of the others might be fine since number of different platforms isn't very high and you can pick something that works for the 2 of you, but for something that needs to be usable by anyone at any time, it won't work.
Does the browser version work well on macos? I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work on chrome.
Not if you're interviewing candidates using video-chat. What's the company supposed to do, FedEx overnight a company laptop to the candidate just for doing a video interview?
>Does the browser version work well on macos?
In my experience, no. It consumes all the CPU.
What problems are you running into?
Not sure what you're on about. I'm all for shitting on Teams, as the chat and specifically group chat functionality is horrible, especially compared to slack (that has its own issues).
But claiming it doesn't work at all is a big one.
>(It's a massive battery drain and CPU hog, but other than that it works)
That doesn't fit with my definition of "works".
There are some awesome features with teams that other apps lack, meeting chat being integrated into the rest of teams, and getting notifications for when recordings are available. the key features leave a lot to be desired though.