• Sunsofold ( Sunsofold@lemmings.world ) 
    5·
    1 year ago

    I’ve used Teams in different places now and I’m coming to suspect the issue is less with Teams itself and more with upper management trying to cheap out on the infrastructure. A company I used to work for tried to cut down on their server expenses by minimizing the resources available to VMs. It meant Teams, made by the same company that makes an OS that gobbles both kinds of memory like it’s trying to fatten up for winter, worked as well as a vehicle with a leaky fuel line, which is to say poorly and with occasional fires and explosions. Another company I worked for had every part of Teams working fluidly. Phones, workstations, events and calendars, even the stupid AI BS, all ticking over nicely. The difference really seemed like it was in the infrastructure. With enough resources, it just worked.

    • jaupsinluggies ( jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk ) Banned
      3·
      1 year ago

      My biggest problem with Teams is that it doesn’t deliver messages when it thinks the computer isn’t active. Got Teams running on Computer A while you’re working on Computer B? Don’t expect to see anything from anyone, not even if you frequently glance over at your other monitor.

      I got a mouse wiggler just so that I could get messages.

      The most fundamental feature of a messaging platform is messaging. If it can’t do that properly, which for some reason Teams can’t or won’t, then it deserves all the hate it gets.

    • Sailing7 ( Sailing7@lemmy.ml ) 
      2·
      1 year ago

      Well if you compare it with shit you set the bar unnececarily low.

      If you actually can and want to look for something better that feels teams-like enough and actually doesnt suck?

      Give Mattermost a shot. Its FOSS and comes with a Paid Option - for Corps of a Size where you want active support.

      Comp I work for uses it and I fucking love it.

    • 0xtero ( 0xtero@beehaw.org ) 
      1·
      1 year ago

      Had you said Teams is the most comprehensive collaboration platform I would have been right there with you.

      But Teams is really just a Sharepoint front-end with tacked on voice and text chat. It’s not a messaging platform.