Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist?

• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yes…

  I have used it daily for at least six years.

  Overlayed on that is I have used WebEx for about 15 years, hell maybe 20 years.

  I agree that it has UI has issues, so does Webex, so does Zoom… hell Skype had its issues as well.

  There is a lot about teams I don’t like, but that is every collaboration tool I have ever used.

  Truth be had the only collaboration tool I have ever been satiated with is the tool my university used back in 2000, but that probably had more to do with not having to drive to class.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Maybe the real issue is the idea of a “collaboration tool”. You could argue the only such ambitious tools I’ve tried are lotus notes and Microsoft Teams, and both were horrible: lots of services but in an ugly ui with poor usability. Teams and unreliable phone and notes didn’t have it at all.

    It’s much better dealing with a set of tools containing better implementations of the feature you want. Maybe it’s just not useful trying to cram that much functionality into one tool.

    And yes I’ll name names, I currently get much better results from

    • zoom for calls (especially with their generated summaries!)
    • slack for texting
    • files in a variety of tools specific to the need

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    • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You are absolutely correct. That they aer bundling the different software is why it will lack.

      If a tool bundles up 10 components and then you poll ten people all they have to do is not like one of those components for the whole bundle to lack.

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  • devolution@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well that was a mic drop response. 😳

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