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Here's what I don't get. Almost everyone I talk to hates Teams. But they use it anyways. Nothing is stopping them from using Zoom or Google Meet, or some other alternative. Yes, these other alternatives have their own problems and tradeoffs. But Teams is just substantially worse than these alternatives. I'll take a Google Meet meeting any day over Teams crap.

Nothing is forcing people to use Teams, but they do. It can't solely be cause it's just bundled and free. People don't want to spend any effort to do better? Is the friction that high?

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The elephant in the room here is companies who "do their chat and collaboration" on Teams. If you work in an organization with 10,000 people using Teams, no one is going to join your Google Meet meeting - if you're even allowed to create one.

As someone who uses Teams all day for work, I have to say since they created the "New Teams", the performance is a lot better and especially if you also use OneDrive, Outlook etc. it is a very streamlined and handy tool.

This doesn't really match my experience. Friction for most video calls is very low. Our org uses teams, but my team uses old zoom accounts we got during early covid, for small groups we use slack huddles, and when we talk to AWS product folks we use chime. Once in a blue moon someone will even send a google meetup my way.

> Here's what I don't get. Almost everyone I talk to hates Teams. But they use it anyways. Nothing is stopping them from using Zoom or Google Meet, or some other alternative.

Maybe in startups and small companies without a dedicated IT team, but an enterprise IT group will absolutely stop you. And Teams is very easy for them to administrate if they are already deploying MS products.

I must be in the minority. In the early days Teams had some pitfalls but for the most part, it's rather great. I don't understand what all the fuss is.

I regularly use both Teams and Google meet and don't find any significant differences that matter... so at the end of the day, use the one that is bundled with the rest of your software instead of having a different dependency.

You are in the minority. Out of 392 people in our internal CoP group that uses Teams on a weekly basis for our checkin, in a poll, 276 asked to switch off Teams to something else, and only 5 people wanted to remain. My guess is that you'd be one of those 5. Sadly in this IT ecosystem, the minority rules.

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