??? Who uses Teams to talk to their friends? Teams is for work.
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Teams is for work when your employer got a good deal on Microsoft software and didn't give you Slack or literally any other alternative for voice.
To be fair, teams has been ahead of slack on video call functionality for a few years. Noise suppression, screen sharing and additional functionality all seems to be a bit ahead.
I use both for work. Slack is far superior when it comes to written messages, and I use slack for quick video calls with collegues, just because I don't feel like booting up Teams, but for scheduled meetings or longer conversations with screen sharing we always use Teams.
I don't need Slack to do voice calls. I could use something else for it. It's just that the things that Slack is good at, Teams is horrible at, and Teams sucks for calls too. If someone calls me, the pop up that allows me to accept or decline the call should actually be responsive and not crash. When I'm browsing old messages, it should be able to render a simple text history without thinking about it for 30 seconds. When I get a message, the notification should occur every time instead of just when it feels like it. When I lose and regain my VPN connection, it should be able to dynamically reconnect without crashing or hanging on a disconnect message. If you're going to put document integration into Teams, why is there not a tab system for open documents I need to keep open rather than forcing me to use the history on the back button or otherwise reload the document by clicking through to teams->team name->files?
I'll be honest - it has never been an option for me or my workplace to use teams for anything but video calls for us developers. We have bitbucket for code, slack for dm, confluence for documentation, jira for tasks, email for async communication and Teams for video calls. Each one are great at what we use them for and kinda sucks as soon as we try to use it for something else.
Teams is included in most Microsoft/Office 365 licenses. And since a lot of businesses use those licenses already for office apps, email, Azure AD, SharePoint and more, it's an easy decision to make.
Teams is also neat because it's integrated with SharePoint which makes access control easy for document sharing within a team.
The Microsoft ecosystem is quite good for administration.
The only one I know is close is Google Workspace but then you have the problem with having to use Google office apps which are lacking in functionality. I don't believe Google Workspace have any AD equivalent features (except on chromebooks maybe).
I guess I don't know what I'm missing. It's been totally fine fory work.
There's Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Teams is for consumers and is the one preinstalled in Windows 11
Then there's Microsoft Teams. It's for business. Is completely incompatible with the other Microsoft Teams and is a separate app.
The icon is also "different". One has the Microsoft teams logo in white on a purple background, the other has the Microsoft teams logo in purple on a white background (forgot which and which)
I really don't understand why they don't use the Skype branding for the consumer version. They forgot how many billions they paid for that?
You also have Teams for Linux which is compatible with Microsoft Teams (Work)but no longer supported. It however isn't compatible with Microsoft Teams (Personal) but if you try to use Microsoft Teams on Linux for personal use, it tells you to install the now non-existant Teams for Linux that only works with Microsoft Teams (Work).
There's also two different versions of logging out in Teams for Linux, Logout and Log Out. Both of which log you out but only one lets you log in as a different user.
Don't get me started with the Microsoft Teams PWA that is now the "way to use Teams on Linux" but isn't the Teams PWA that installs if you try the normal way...
All hail Microsoft Teams! At least I can stream the games I'm playing to my work meetings so people know I'm skiving.
They've totally ruined any brand power that Skype once had by now, so in this case, I get it.
I really don’t understand why they don’t use the Skype branding for the consumer version. They forgot how many billions they paid for that?
That happened in a past quarter. Money spent in past quarters doesn't matter. The next fiscal quarter is what matters.
Teams' work makes' dreamsys workses
oh good, because when I'm talking to all of my friends they all use... Teams.
Only the cheapest and most microsoft dependent companies use teams, and I don't know a single social group that uses teams.
yeeeee more bloatware
I hate using Teams at work.. I definitely don't want it for my gaming too.
@trashhalo This really feels like Microsoft's Google Assistant moment - taking a duplicative effort of something they already had, gassing it to high heaven and shoving it *everywhere* despite not being asked for or welcome.
Only time will tell if they will also follow Google's approach of it slowly languishing until it crumbles apart and they do the process all over again.
Oh gee, great. I'm glad development effort was invested in this feature instead of something like having the web app be capable of showing 6 people in a conference call at the same time. /s
hey that's the tool that everyone uses and definitely isn't only seen when you open it accidentally! I bet that will be a very worrying competitor to the well established platform from 2015!
I wish Microsoft would have actually been taught a lesson about anti-trust bullshit rather than having a pro oligarch new administration let them off scot free
This is for msft employees working on game bar who can't use discord on work computer.
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The new “Microsoft Teams Play Together” widget is available for the Xbox Game Bar and supports streaming your entire desktop over Teams and also the ability to join video calls to see friends overlaid on top of games.
Microsoft describes the new Game Bar integration for Teams as “a place to hang out while watching and playing games,” which sounds a lot like what people use Discord for.
You’ll see friends overlaid on top of a game, and up to 20 people can join a call at any one time.
I wasn’t able to see video participants overlaid on top of the game during my testing either, so that feature might not be working fully just yet.
The free version of Microsoft Teams for Windows 11 got Discord-like communities in June.
These are Microsoft’s answer to what you might find on Facebook or how people use apps like Discord, WhatsApp, and Reddit to organize groups.
Microsoft is shoving Teams down everyone's throats harder than, I don't know what. Teams is just awful, it's slow, clunky, and a piece of shit that nobody asked for.
I haven’t used teams since 2021 and even then I didn’t use it like I use discord
At 5fps. Al.lst every time we try streaming a YouTube video it's a slideshow and unwatchable.