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It is (by far) the most horrific piece of software I'm forced to used, the UI/UX is confusing, it's a battery killer, eats all the ram (though - that's common with all electron garbage), it somehow manages to make Bluetooth headsets drop out, it significantly impacts network performance when sharing video, a lot of bugs in the calendaring system.... I could go on, but damn I just hate it.

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Teams is the only application that consistently has trouble finding any audio devices because it decides to manage them itself, poorly, instead of relying on system defaults.

Audio works in every other application, but sometimes Teams just decides it can't find any audio interface. Or worse, it finds one but decides "It's not working" and refuses to use it.

Using Teams in the browser is then a possible solution.

I agree so much! It is baffling to me that so many companies/schools/individuals are actively using it. It is _so_ _bad_. Messages are lost, it reboots spontaneously, it crashes, one cannot turn off emoticons (I think (the UI doesn't help)), etc. It does not even take security seriously. What is good about that software?

And then when I talk about this with colleagues, they seem to be just fine with it...

Anyway, sorry about the rant. But it is just so nice to see that there are other people also dissatisfied with it, and that is not just me.

The reason people use it is because either they don’t have a say in it or they legitimately never used anything better (such as Slack or the lesser-known competitors like Mattermost).

If your benchmark is Skype for Business or email then I guess Teams is indeed an upgrade, and Microsoft is betting on that.

> If your benchmark is Skype for Business or email then I guess Teams is indeed an upgrade

No it really isn't! At least shouldn't be forced as a replacement for Skype.

Also because Microsoft try to lock people in by giving teams for "free" when an org buys Office 365.

Literally every time I type in ``` I get different behavior, depending on what mood it’s in. And some days it stops getting updates, especially if you’ve got the mobile version running too. Step out for a moment and someone asks you a question? Well good luck getting it to show up in a device with a real keyboard.

When I used to have my i9 16" MBP, the thing would go crazy and hit 90% CPU usage during web calls on Teams.

I had to force myself to have it in clamshell mode to avoid crazy stuff going on.

On PC at least sometimes it helps to keep it on the laptop screen instead of an external screen.

Use it in a browser. At least you can close the browser, and to be honest desktop Chrome seems to have better power management.

Of course, sometimes you then get the "Your browser is unsupported -- please use Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome" message, whilst using Chrome...

Sadly misses important features like background blur and more on the MacOS browser..

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