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Teams is an embarassing piece of software. I use it on work laptop - a Microsoft surface. The laptop is Microsoft branded and all their software is so slow. Clicking to change chats is 1-2 seconds of delay. Opening office files is 1-2 seconds of delay. Opening calendar in outlook is 1-2 seconds of delay. Everything is so laggy and 90% of the time all you want to see is text. Ctrl-F search through Teams defaults to non-exact search.

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I've recently switched to the browser based client https://teams.microsoft.com and ditched their desktop application as I grew frustrated with its extremely slow UI. The browser client is more responsive, consumes less CPU and RAM, and uBlock some of the tracking javascript.

I can live with some of the missing features:

No noise cancellation

Audio devices are configured via windows sound settings

Can only share full screens and not individual windows

Standard Windows notification sounds and not the Teams sounds.

Maybe missing more otherwise its more or less the same app.

I've installed it as a Chrome App and it has its own window, task bar icon / shortcut and generates notifications.

I'd suggest others to try it out.

Thanks for this! Looks to be a game changer for my productivity and sanity!

I was about to get a second device for teams. Performance has degraded so badly that it's now impossible to pretend to be in a meeting and run an IDE / office apps / factorio at the same time.

> Can only share full screens and not individual windows

At least on Chrome, the Teams screen sharing option summons the Chrome screen sharing dialog, which allows you to select either the whole desktop, individual windows or specific tabs inside the browser. Maybe the limitation is from the browser you are using? (Although I would be very surprised)

You maybe right. It could be in another tab on the screen sharing dialog. I perhaps might have missed it.

In fact I once timed getting into a Teams meeting from turning the computer on and it took pretty much exactly 5 minutes. FIVE MINUTES. The laptop has an SSD how is it five minutes?

The delays in Teams kill me inside. I press the up arrow to fix an error, wait for editor to initialize, then wait for the cursor to move to the end of the text, then edit the typo and re-send. The waiting part is 500-1500 ms. The overall responsiveness is abysmal.

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