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As a CTO coach I use Meets, Zoom and MS Teams.

MS Teams is the worst of the bunch by far, mainly because it's not a video conferencing tool but wants to be everything. So it's hard to just schedule a call with someone in another organisation. Works fine with Zoom and Meets, doesn't work with Teams (also the HTML link in invites does not work in my calendar solution, why not just have a simple text link?)

Zoom is the easiest and has the best video and sound quality and is my prefered tool (also support raw audio which is excellent when working with my speech coach).

(I invest in my setup, Sony ZV1/Elgato HDMI, Bose QC, Rode Podcaster, 500mbit fiber and I don't like it when the software tool reduces this to 90s video internet for no reason).

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That's also been my experience. Teams is absolutely awful. It looks like it's a sharepoint messaging client (you can store files in it, make group pages), which is.. insane.

I dread seeing a Teams meeting put together, because almost always, at least 1/2 of the people on it will struggle with sound, video, random crashes, and inability to share.

Zoom, for the same people, on the same equipment, doesn't have any issues. It's night and day.

Teams tries to be Slack, Zoom and more and it's been terribly confusing and bad a few times I had to use it.

However when people in suits take decisions then "why pay for N products instead of one?" becomes compelling for many. I saw a tweet last week saying Teams have 10x user count of Slack apparently. I guess some upselling from MS who already has Office does wonders.

I didn't use Teams more than 1h at once so maybe long term it's not that bad when you learn to use it? But Zoom and Slack seem aay better products for me.

I work at a Teams co with about 60k people and vid/chat/share/etc works without issue. Issues, in my group, are extremely rare.

I still have issues with zoom and audio cutting when multiple people speak at once. They seem to have gotten better over the last few years, but it still feels very jarring and disrupts the flow of conversation.

what’s a speech coach?

Someone who helps you speak more like how you'd like. For instance helping a non-native speaker sound more like a native speaker.

I mostly speak too fast and a speech coach helps me speak slower.

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