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We're a Microsoft shop so we use Skype for Business, which seems to work well for talk/IM/screen sharing. Now we're getting "Teams" to be slacker.

I'd be curious to hear how the Slack video/screen sharing compares to Skype Business, after a rocky start it's working pretty smoothly for us now.

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We tried Teams and returned to Slack.

Broken notifications and horrible SharePoint magic behind the scenes. The way Teams is organized confused some of my team. Interestingly, we also had a lot of problems with Skype for Business.

The dark theme and the way Teams formats while you type was great, though!

We're trying it out now (since it's included with o365) and I find it mostly usable. It has most of the things I need (group (video) calls, screen share, search, files tab etc). My biggest complaint has been the random glitches you run into every now then (repeatedly being logged out for no reason comes to mind). That and the slowness (i'll often see a lag between when I've hit return and when my message shows up in the conversation). Hope someone from Teams is reading this :).

We're doing the same thing. I want to use Slack but we're going with Teams for cost reasons (included in o365). I've never had any problems with screen sharing with skype for business.

I wish we were at least moving to teams.

I can't stand Skype For Business (Lync) - half of the time copying+pasting in and out of messages fails and or messages are too long.

I would even prefer slack over this.

I've been using Lync for so long that I'm just used to all the little stupid things it does. Teams is a definite improvement.

Someone (on hn maybe?) compared Teams to Google Wave and I can't really get that comparison out of my head now.

"work well" in Lync is usually not what it sounds like

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