Microsoft Teams Debate

Users share highly polarized experiences with Microsoft Teams, praising its Microsoft integrations and video features while criticizing bugs, performance issues, unreliable notifications, and inferiority to Slack.

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Sample Comments

emddudley Jun 26, 2021 View on HN

Teams has worked great for me. It's comparably fast to Slack. Calls and screen sharing work perfectly. I am not sure what is different about my situation versus the other users here. I use the native app on Windows, and my org currently has channels and most integrations disabled (Outlook, OneDrive).

ailideex Nov 21, 2019 View on HN

Microsoft Teams is pretty horrible

taspeotis Nov 18, 2023 View on HN

Could have at least used Microsoft Teams…

ilyt Feb 9, 2023 View on HN

We don't use teams feature almost at all because it forces threading. Before wer used mattermost but teams is 100% worse but with video chat...

speedgoose Feb 13, 2020 View on HN

Microsoft Teams, it's not very good but it's well integrated inside the Microsoft environment.

girishso Feb 29, 2020 View on HN

MS Teams is very buggy/has less features, we're researching other tools atm.

sexy_seedbox Jun 23, 2022 View on HN

It's Microsoft Teams without 80% of the bugs.

jounker Dec 25, 2021 View on HN

How is this inconsistent with “Teams is awful, and we avoid it as much as possible”?

badrabbit Sep 22, 2022 View on HN

I have been using teams for 3+ years on mac and windows and I have never had any issues. Perhaps you are a linux user? If so, they recommend the PWA app. I have used zoom and plenty others but nothing comes close to Teams for me.Perhaps, having used Teams' predecessor "skype for business" I am just grateful the torment is over.

jsyang00 Jan 7, 2024 View on HN

Microsoft Teams already is this as long as you don't care about anything basically working.