For a while, Microsoft Teams was pretty good. I’d say their sweet spot was roughly 2020-2022ish. It was a pretty basic chat app with a bit of workplace collaboration and office integration built in.

Then new teams happened. Now teams can be installed to a user profile, or to the machine as a whole. Now you need new outlook to get some semblance of functionality with calendars and scheduling in teams. Now teams is deployed as part of Microsoft office, or standalone, or needs to be imported as a package, but fuck you if you have a mix of these methods in your environment. Teams holds on to your data now forever, which would be great!.. If the search function actually worked well. Now you have to sort through everything you’ve ever said to find something that someone sent you last week.

Microsoft just can’t fucking resist destroying a “good” chat application by adding a bunch of bloat.