Teams is an absolutely garbage app and platform....on a good day
I'm using a surface laptop 3. Maybe MS did the apple thing of making software that only works properly on their own hardware
Other things that sucked:
- search never seemed to find anything I wanted, and I never knew why, but I can always find what I want in e.g. Discord so pretty sure the problem isn't actually me
- copying and pasting code was always a nightmare with formatting
- if you called someone at the same time as they called you, who knows what could happen, it couldn't handle the multi-device nature of it all
- general latency, everything was slow and with a delay (which I think contributed to the issue just above)
- the file viewer sucked immensely, and never was improved
- resource use on Mac OS was often abysmal
- updates constantly caused further issues, to the point it became a joke with the team when we'd encounter new bugs
- delivery of message notification emails was inconsistent if not signed in at all. Sometimes it would be near instant, other times it would be hours later, and sometimes days later. Never had that issue with other services like Slack, so also don't think that was on our end.
- ghost calls, where teams would think someone was in a call, but it had been cancelled, causing misc. issues with calling back etc.
Damn, what a piece of junk!
If you work at Microsoft, and have any influence on the WinDev team, please tell them that the Start menu search is simply shameful.
There hasn’t been a single major Windows release — server or client — capable of consistently, reliably, and correctly finding start menu items. Worse, every major release is broken in new and creative ways. This is especially true for a fresh install, because apparently a 64-core server needs several days to index 500 KB of text. (Microsoft support told me this with a straight face, almost verbatim.)
Seriously, what is that team doing!?
Is this the same code that’s in Outlook and Teams search too?
It feels like it…
From what I can figure this is kind of inherent when apps are electron based to be cross-platform. Similar experience with vscode.
As another said, the dismissing of notifications is onerous.
But I have no issues with performance, and no apparent bugginess either.
No Surface here - custom AMD Ryzen / AMD Radeon desktop. Windows 10 Pro.
As an aside though, on Surface it was Google Meet that destroyed performance. I repeatedly got overheating warnings while in meetings.
I have since switched to a M1 macbook and it heats up too, but at least the processor is efficient so it doesn't become uncomfortable.
These issues simply did not happen on either laptop with Zoom. Teams is simply a horribly written piece of crapware. MS should be ashamed of themselves.
No it doesn’t.
Video calls are worse than Skype or Google meets.
The Word thing in Teams is buggy, ‘open in app’ leads to better behaviour but you can end up in version hell. The online Word version doesn’t do the same things as Teams Word or the native app.
As a test, try moving a picture or editing a footer.
crashes all the time. I actually had a better experience with it on Mac more often than Windows.
The Windows people have WAY more issues. The Mac experience isn't great but not nearly as bad as the Windows users.
using the msedge webapp i _only_ bloat to about 2GB.
edit: on my win10 machine
I don't use Mac myself but these days the operating system is supposed to continue running even if some specific app does something stupid.
Off-topic but I need to get this off my chest: Outlook on the web is a much better experience than the native app on the Mac.
However, they must have caught wind of this, because there have been some "improvements" recently, where they reduced the vertical screen space with an empty menu line, and it also feels a bit less snappy than before.
I don't know if it's Outlook though. I have similar issues with my Intel MBP, and I don't use Outlook. I slowly drain from 20GB available down to 2, and then I have to restart. It's like living in the early 2000's, restarting all the time.