{"slug": "microsoft-teams", "name": "Microsoft Teams", "category": "communication", "category_name": "Email and chat", "description": "", "recommenders": 2, "commenters": 36, "warners": 19, "score": -11.347, "rising": 2.0, "first": "2025-11-14", "latest": "2026-10-28", "why": "Teams and W11 are some of most stable, \"it just works\" pieces of software coming from them I can think of", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 16, "compare": 0, "warn": 19}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Teams and W11 are some of most stable, \"it just works\" pieces of software coming from them I can think of", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Microsoft Teams", "Teams"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 802218320, "item_id": 50138645, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138645", "by": "sombragris", "date": "2026-10-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The good part is that it's a very good tool for that.", "excerpt": "Uni professor here in Paraguay. My university (which is barely starting right now) got Teams as a package deal that included Outlook email and calendaring, One Drive, and Office 365. There might be other stuff, but these are the ones most visible to me in my role as a teacher. We use Teams not as part of a traditional in-office groupware but as a means to deliver online classes. 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I don\u2019t mind so much when it\u2019s just an occasional thing.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Teams is a red flag"}, {"id": 802284337, "item_id": 50142771, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50142771", "by": "wolvoleo", "date": "2026-10-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Teams also keeps a 100% persistent record of everything you say even if you delete it.", "excerpt": "Haha yeah it's ancient I know. We used it until about 2019 :S The reason was that during the years a lot of people had been 'creative' and built tools in its database/scripting language. Many of these tools had been abandoned but still had wormed their way into critical business processes. It took us years to decommission most of them and in some cases rebuild them with modern tech. 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I prefer Slack to alternatives, Teams is miserable.", "context": "", "use_case": "team chat", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available?"}]}], "who": [{"by": "sombragris", "context": "university professor in Paraguay, Linux user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138645", "date": "2026-10-18"}, {"by": "rf15", "context": "European insurance/gov company", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50134928", "date": "2026-10-17"}, {"by": "Kurtz79", "context": "long-time Microsoft user since MS-DOS 6.0", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109531", "date": "2026-10-15"}, {"by": "toomuchtodo", "context": "in tech for 25+ years", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904157", "date": "2026-02-05"}, {"by": "jillesvangurp", "context": "consultant working with various customers", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882887", "date": "2026-02-04"}, {"by": "system2", "context": "Windows user with 50+ apps installed", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46799829", "date": "2026-01-28"}, {"by": "0ld", "context": "FreeBSD desktop user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935968", "date": "2025-11-15"}, {"by": "wanderingmind", "context": "professional in Australia", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934675", "date": "2025-11-14"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["team chat", "work chat", "client communication", "university communication", "workplace chat", "delivering online classes"], "compared": [{"slug": "slack", "name": "Slack", "co": 15, "switched_from": 2, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "lotus-sametime", "name": "Lotus Sametime", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "microsoft-outlook", "name": "Microsoft Outlook", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "azure", "name": "Azure", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "discord", "name": "Discord", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50130228", "title": "Microsoft Teams is a red flag", "mentions": 6}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873294", "title": "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45808407", "title": "Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50263854", "title": "Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50107379", "title": "Muse Spark Open", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49847959", "title": "Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available?", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"warn": 2, "neutral": 3}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"warn": 2, "neutral": 1}, "2026-02": {"warn": 2, "neutral": 3}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-04": {"neutral": 2}, "2026-05": {"warn": 2}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 1, "warn": 2}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1, "warn": 1}, "2026-08": {"warn": 1}, "2026-09": {"warn": 4, "neutral": 1}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 3, "warn": 3}}, "quotes": [{"id": 804298977, "item_id": 50268686, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50268686", "by": "5555watch", "date": "2026-10-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "In universities we use Teams", "excerpt": "Discord is very hard to understand for me. But the young people love it for some reason. Had to use it for some projects or hackatons, and it's still a mystery why it's so popular. No one found older links that were deeper in the chats, had to constantly tag people to see anything, random chats pushed the important information away. It was overall terrible for everyone yet everyone still loves it. And weirdly, I then", "context": "", "use_case": "university communication", "switched_from": "", "story": "Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google"}, {"id": 802774656, "item_id": 50173416, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50173416", "by": "kstrauser", "date": "2026-10-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I\u2019m so glad we use other tools daily, and keep these around for the convenience of collaborating with some external parties who use it.", "excerpt": "I definitely don\u2019t forget that. I\u2019m so glad we use other tools daily, and keep these around for the convenience of collaborating with some external parties who use it. I don\u2019t mind so much when it\u2019s just an occasional thing.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Teams is a red flag"}, {"id": 802284337, "item_id": 50142771, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50142771", "by": "wolvoleo", "date": "2026-10-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Teams also keeps a 100% persistent record of everything you say even if you delete it.", "excerpt": "Haha yeah it's ancient I know. We used it until about 2019 :S The reason was that during the years a lot of people had been 'creative' and built tools in its database/scripting language. Many of these tools had been abandoned but still had wormed their way into critical business processes. It took us years to decommission most of them and in some cases rebuild them with modern tech. I really miss Lotus Sametime thoug", "context": "", "use_case": "workplace chat", "switched_from": "Lotus Sametime", "story": "Microsoft Teams is a red flag"}, {"id": 802218320, "item_id": 50138645, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138645", "by": "sombragris", "date": "2026-10-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The good part is that it's a very good tool for that.", "excerpt": "Uni professor here in Paraguay. My university (which is barely starting right now) got Teams as a package deal that included Outlook email and calendaring, One Drive, and Office 365. There might be other stuff, but these are the ones most visible to me in my role as a teacher. We use Teams not as part of a traditional in-office groupware but as a means to deliver online classes. The good part is that it's a very good", "context": "university professor in Paraguay, Linux user", "use_case": "delivering online classes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Teams is a red flag"}, {"id": 802213264, "item_id": 50138329, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138329", "by": "penultimatename", "date": "2026-10-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The loss of institutional knowledge was absolutely punishing and costly.", "excerpt": "I\u2019ll touch on two areas that the article and many comments didn\u2019t mention. We switched from Slack to Teams at a previous company. - The loss of institutional knowledge was absolutely punishing and costly. Overnight, we lost access to an easily searchable knowledge base. A solution was available, but the search was awful and you had to know what you were looking for. While this isn\u2019t really a fault of Teams and the ve", "context": "", "use_case": "team chat", "switched_from": "Slack", "story": "Microsoft Teams is a red flag"}, {"id": 802158848, "item_id": 50134928, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50134928", "by": "rf15", "date": "2026-10-17", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "we use Teams, Outlook, Sharepoint as side products of Office", "excerpt": "In our european company (insurance/gov space) we use Teams, Outlook, Sharepoint as side products of Office, largely to get the official editing tools for the documents our clients provide. Depending on who you are in our company, you are using either Mac or Windows, although we are slowly shifting to OpenSUSE. Azure and GitHub are completely out of the question, and OneDrive is only used in the context of Teams/Share", "context": "European insurance/gov company", "use_case": "work collaboration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Teams is a red flag"}, {"id": 802089344, "item_id": 50130584, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50130584", "by": "bix6", "date": "2026-10-17", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I love when people shit on teams and provide no basis for why it\u2019s so much worse than all the other chat offerings", "excerpt": "I love when people shit on teams and provide no basis for why it\u2019s so much worse than all the other chat offerings other than it being teams.", "context": "", "use_case": "team chat", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Teams is a red flag"}, {"id": 801752496, "item_id": 50109531, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109531", "by": "Kurtz79", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Teams and W11 are some of most stable, \"it just works\" pieces of software coming from them I can think of", "excerpt": "\"Microsoft has completely lost the ability to make good software; see Microsoft Teams and what they've done to Windows 11.\" Uh, what is your positive comparison point? I have been using MS apps since MS-DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1 (including doozies like Windows Millennium and Vista) and Teams and W11 are some of most stable, \"it just works\" pieces of software coming from them I can think of...", "context": "long-time Microsoft user since MS-DOS 6.0", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Muse Spark Open"}, {"id": 797588146, "item_id": 49849259, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849259", "by": "dieselgate", "date": "2026-09-25", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Teams is miserable.", "excerpt": "Switched from Spotify to Deezer. I prefer Slack to alternatives, Teams is miserable.", "context": "", "use_case": "team chat", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available?"}, {"id": 797514448, "item_id": 49844653, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844653", "by": "mcv", "date": "2026-09-25", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use it, but only through the web interface.", "excerpt": "I use it, but only through the web interface. I suppose websites spy too, but I hope Firefox with the right extensions offers sufficient protection.", "context": "", "use_case": "work chat", "switched_from": "", "story": "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"}, {"id": 795447264, "item_id": 49715454, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715454", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Microsoft Teams won because Microsoft bundles it for free, even though it's garbage.", "excerpt": "Search Github for anything with a code assistant as a contributor? > If coding is a nearly solved problem, if AI is making it so easy to make anything, why aren't we seeing the market flood with cheap alternatives to software that we all use daily and hate? Because that is a business problem, not an LLM and software problem. Perhaps coding isn't the solution for those problems, but companies that can potentially beco", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Where is all of the AI coded software?"}, {"id": 795442080, "item_id": 49715130, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715130", "by": "mahboi", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "MS Teams is terrible, and yet it's gotten this far.", "excerpt": "MS Teams is terrible, and yet it's gotten this far. I don't know if Slack or Teams is winning, just that Jabber won't beat Teams at its own game. Thankfully we use Slack where I work. The cross-org channels are cool.", "context": "", "use_case": "team chat", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jabber/XMPP: How Do We Gain Traction?"}, {"id": 793962994, "item_id": 49622687, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622687", "by": "anticodon", "date": "2026-09-09", "stance": "warn", "quote": "To me it looked absurd.", "excerpt": "I worked in a EU company that was developing a product competing with one of Microsoft offerings. All the code was hosted on GitHub, we used Azure for hosting and all the internal communications were in Microsoft Teams. To me it looked absurd. But I was almost the smallest cog in the corporate structure, so I never asked what were the reasons for all these decisions.", "context": "worked at an EU company building a product competing with Microsoft's", "use_case": "internal communications", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Navier\u2013Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"}, {"id": 789274384, "item_id": 49329649, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329649", "by": "mrngld", "date": "2026-08-17", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Teams, SharePoint, Google Docs, someone somewhere is doing those things much better.", "excerpt": "There's competition, but no one is interested. TBH, I blame IT leadership. The easy choice is Google or Microsoft. \"No one ever got fired for buying IBM\" is now \"No one ever got fired for subbing to Office.\" Someone needs to bite the bullet and stitch together an alternative array of services. They've cultivated their own monoculture by hitting the easy-button and forking over for Office365, etc. Which if we're being", "context": "", "use_case": "corporate collaboration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline"}, {"id": 784449866, "item_id": 49028116, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028116", "by": "bob1029", "date": "2026-07-23", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Teams still kind of sucks", "excerpt": "Microsoft is a big place. I recommend focusing on the parts they do well rather than getting tribal. All of the following products and services are fantastic in 2026: Windows Server SQL Server .NET/C#/F#/Nuget Visual Studio [code] SSMS AAD/EntraID Defender DirectX Excel I agree that Teams still kind of sucks and that Azure is a complete dumpster fire of a cloud, on average. But that doesn't mean we should throw the p", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask: Why does everything Microsoft create lately feel fragile and half-baked?"}, {"id": 784252851, "item_id": 49015803, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015803", "by": "Marsymars", "date": "2026-07-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "the sum total of Electron apps I use are Teams (I guess not quite Electron now, but close enough)/Slack/Discord/Android Messages/VS Code", "excerpt": "> Just like in the native vs electron debate it's not \"Beautiful hand-crafted native app\" or \"Electron wasteful trash\", it's \"Electron or nothing\". The overwhelming majority of the total uses of Electron apps are going to be the same pile of apps from various megacorps that could fund native apps with change from their couch cushions. e.g. the sum total of Electron apps I use are Teams (I guess not quite Electron now", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns"}, {"id": 778749649, "item_id": 48671853, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671853", "by": "PunchyHamster", "date": "2026-06-25", "stance": "warn", "quote": "No software should make anyone miss using MS Teams", "excerpt": "I used their enterprise chat the other week coz one of the clients used it It is truly amazing how bad it is. Made me miss using MS Teams. No software should make anyone miss using MS Teams", "context": "", "use_case": "team chat", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models"}, {"id": 777452610, "item_id": 48590788, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48590788", "by": "MBCook", "date": "2026-06-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I get a modal pop-up telling me I have to \u201crefresh\u201d teams multiple times a day.", "excerpt": "My company recently switched from Google Suite to Office 365. Both are web apps. It\u2019s NIGHT AND DAY. Google did everything instantly. Outlook doesn\u2019t. This morning Outlook decided to spin for 30+ seconds (at which point I gave up) showing a folder. I get a modal pop-up telling me I have to \u201crefresh\u201d teams multiple times a day. Search always fails the first time. Always. Then it works. Some. I agree. It\u2019s not web tech", "context": "", "use_case": "work chat", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"}, {"id": 776711616, "item_id": 48544476, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544476", "by": "Hugsbox", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use that emoji as a reaction in Teams a lot at work", "excerpt": "Yeah the white supremacy thing is news to me too... I use that emoji as a reaction in Teams a lot at work, I sincerely hope nobody's been taking it the wrong way O.O", "context": "", "use_case": "work chat", "switched_from": "", "story": "FIFA seeks explanation over VAR official's hand gesture"}, {"id": 770529281, "item_id": 48158080, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158080", "by": "usr1106", "date": "2026-05-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Microsoft Teams, which is largely non-functional bullshit", "excerpt": "We used zulip at work 7 years until I had to leave when the startup had to cut down development. We didn't pay a cent (which is not good for the project...) It was truly enjoyable software. Nowadays I am forced to use Microsoft Teams, which is largely non-functional bullshit. We pay real money to the disgusting company. Where do I find a list of employers using zulip?", "context": "", "use_case": "team chat at work", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Zulip Foundation"}, {"id": 768901824, "item_id": 48056364, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056364", "by": "gigel82", "date": "2026-05-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "They moved away from Teams because it objectively sucked", "excerpt": "Damn, all schools in our district in Washington moved to Instructure last year. They moved away from Teams because it objectively sucked, but I haven't heard of widespread compromises like this in Microsoft's systems so...", "context": "parent/resident in a Washington school district", "use_case": "school district platform", "switched_from": "", "story": "ShinyHunters claims data theft from 8,800 schools (Instructure/Canvas)"}, {"id": 766733682, "item_id": 47920855, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920855", "by": "sminchev", "date": "2026-04-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "In case of friends, directly in Viber, and Teams.", "excerpt": "gmail :) Not kidding, Most of the time, when I want to send something from my device to my laptop, I share it with an email. In case of friends, directly in Viber, and Teams.", "context": "", "use_case": "sending files", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What file sharing apps do you guys use?"}, {"id": 764394672, "item_id": 47774667, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774667", "by": "Balooga", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I struggle to remember how to add an attachment in MS Teams, which I use every day.", "excerpt": "My Dad could never build the metal model to understand that common concepts like copy/paste would work almost identically across different native Windows applications; \"How do I copy/paste in an email?\", \"How do I copy/paste in a Word document?\", \"How do I open a file in Excel?\", \"How do I open a file in Word?\". The lightbulb just never went on in his head. And this was in the 90s and early 2000s when developers at l", "context": "", "use_case": "daily work communication", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Easiest UX for Seniors"}, {"id": 761165778, "item_id": 47572861, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47572861", "by": "ipster_io", "date": "2026-03-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "At my office, we use Slack and Teams", "excerpt": "I built Heartbeat.page for myself. At my office, we use Slack and Teams, but honestly no one actually checks a digital status before they walk over to your desk. I keep a QR code on my desk with a note that says \"What I\u2019m up to.\" Anyone can scan it to see if I\u2019m in a deep-focus session or free to chat. I can update it from anywhere just by sending a quick email to a custom address. (There is a 'Download QR Code' icon", "context": "", "use_case": "office chat status", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Heartbeat \u2013 A simple public page for your real-world and online status"}, {"id": 752294992, "item_id": 47018437, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47018437", "by": "Muromec", "date": "2026-02-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use teams at work and it's okay.", "excerpt": "I use teams at work and it's okay. Not the best, not the worst, but okay piece of software. At least I have both the calendar and the videocall things in one app and see when the call starts, so I don't accidentally ADHD myself into missing it.", "context": "", "use_case": "work chat, calendar, calls", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI Should Build Slack"}, {"id": 750466513, "item_id": 46904157, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904157", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2026-02-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Teams for a client or two", "excerpt": "I'm in several Slack teams for non profits and professional orgs, Teams for a client or two, IRC and Matrix servers for digital archiving ops, Signal/WhatsApp/GroupMe/Telegram groups, etc. I have been in tech for 25+ years, I am familiar with the extremes. You are right, things can be bad, that is the point of systems engineering: to drive directionally towards continual improvement. Success is never assured, but thr", "context": "in tech for 25+ years", "use_case": "client communication", "switched_from": "", "story": "European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams"}, {"id": 750126192, "item_id": 46882887, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882887", "by": "jillesvangurp", "date": "2026-02-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Internally we use teams.", "excerpt": "Zoom and teams are low hanging fruit in terms of replacability. I use both with various customers. Internally we use teams. Occasionally somebody insists on webex or other tools. Meets isn't actually horrible now that Google seems to have stopped the internal battles to replace it every six months. But in the end it is very replaceable as well. All of these tools cover the basics (being able to video call others, scr", "context": "consultant working with various customers", "use_case": "video calls and chat", "switched_from": "", "story": "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"}, {"id": 750124512, "item_id": 46882782, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882782", "by": "nottorp", "date": "2026-02-03", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I just got switched to Teams at work and now I understand why no one ever chats on it.", "excerpt": "... and here I was thinking they're dropping them because they're annoyances ... [Teams more than zoom. I just got switched to Teams at work and now I understand why no one ever chats on it.]", "context": "", "use_case": "work chat", "switched_from": "", "story": "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"}, {"id": 749991361, "item_id": 46874460, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874460", "by": "firefoxd", "date": "2026-02-03", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Slack is a delight compared to Teams.", "excerpt": "After an acquisition, we are transitioning from google meet and slack, to Teams. I used to hate slack so much with their random features popping left and right and menus moving around. Oh I didn't know how good we had it. Slack is a delight compared to Teams. And I'm not even alone in this, everyone is still using slack until it gets pried off our hands. So help me God anyone mentions Copilot one more time...", "context": "company transitioning after an acquisition", "use_case": "team chat", "switched_from": "Slack", "story": "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"}, {"id": 748797268, "item_id": 46799829, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46799829", "by": "system2", "date": "2026-01-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "many of which are corporate applications, such as Teams and other Microsoft products", "excerpt": ">\"If you're always finding the next reason not to switch, you're not looking for solutions, you're looking for excuses to stay complacent.\" No, my friend. It is not the reason. I have over 50 apps installed, many of which are corporate applications, such as Teams and other Microsoft products. VMwaresing VMWare and WSL foLinux distributionsnux distros. The other things that Linux is missing are ShareX (has flameshot I", "context": "Windows user with 50+ apps installed", "use_case": "corporate work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"}, {"id": 746783025, "item_id": 46673939, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46673939", "by": "ryanSrich", "date": "2026-01-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I wouldn't wish Teams on my worst enemy", "excerpt": "I run a company that services 1,000+ clients on Slack, another 300+ on Teams, and a < 100 on Email/Gchat I wouldn't wish Teams on my worst enemy, so in that regard, I love Slack The thing I struggle with the most is how I'd move all of our core functionality from Slack. A lot of the people/teams that build these \"Slack killers\" I don't think have ever run Slack at scale How are you going to replace the 30+ in-house a", "context": "runs a company servicing 300+ clients on Teams", "use_case": "client communication", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Dock \u2013 Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss"}, {"id": 746075025, "item_id": 46629689, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629689", "by": "tdy_err", "date": "2026-01-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Jira, Microsoft Teams, HP Printers, Ticketmaster, \u2026", "excerpt": "> I don\u2019t even remember hating any other piece of technology I used Jira, Microsoft Teams, HP Printers, Ticketmaster, \u2026", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion"}, {"id": 736825746, "item_id": 46051609, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051609", "by": "andyjohnson0", "date": "2025-11-25", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I mostly live in Visual Studio and Outlook/Teams.", "excerpt": "Single AOC 27\" UHD monitor on my desktop Windows system at home. I use multiple desktops for context switching. No gaming, just a bit of dev and photo stuff. At work, a couple of Dell 27\" UHD monitors attached to my Windows laptop via DP ports on a dock. Single desktop as I have plenty of screen space. I mostly live in Visual Studio and Outlook/Teams. No complaints about either - all works pretty well.", "context": "", "use_case": "work chat", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What is your monitor setup?"}, {"id": 735561888, "item_id": 45972618, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45972618", "by": "arexxbifs", "date": "2025-11-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "released products that nearly everyone dislikes but still has to use for some reason (Teams comes to mind)", "excerpt": "Interesting examples with WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3, which were both dominant for about 10 years during the 1980s and early 1990s. Since then, Microsoft has been dominant in the same segment - for a whopping 30-35 years. During this time, they've made massive, unpopular interface overhauls, released products that nearly everyone dislikes but still has to use for some reason (Teams comes to mind), offer basically ze", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Final Straw: Why Companies Replace Once-Beloved Technology Brands"}, {"id": 734975488, "item_id": 45935968, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935968", "by": "0ld", "date": "2025-11-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I\u2019ve been using teams for years in a browser (on my FreeBSD desktop), and I find it good enough for doing my job", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve been using teams for years in a browser (on my FreeBSD desktop), and I find it good enough for doing my job - chats work, calls work, presentations work, screen sharing works. or should I say mostly work\u2026 sure, it\u2019s as glitchy as it ever was and may fail for any reason at any time, but you don\u2019t really need an app to experience all that", "context": "FreeBSD desktop user", "use_case": "chat, calls, screen sharing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux"}, {"id": 734954800, "item_id": 45934675, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934675", "by": "wanderingmind", "date": "2025-11-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Teams is a must if you are a professional in Australia.", "excerpt": "Teams is a must if you are a professional in Australia. However, I love my Debian+ i3 too much to give it up. Using it through chrome is not easy especially to chat. So, I install it as appomage through appman and it works beautifully well that I can automatically update as well.", "context": "professional in Australia", "use_case": "work chat", "switched_from": "", "story": "Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux"}, {"id": 734944657, "item_id": 45934041, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934041", "by": "mastazi", "date": "2025-11-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the official client has a bug where it will open chats in a separate window even when the user did not intend to", "excerpt": "I've been using this for a long time and it works better than the official client (which I use on another computer) because it has less bugs. For example the official client has a bug where it will open chats in a separate window even when the user did not intend to (has to do with the first click being ignored while Teams it's out of focus, and the second click being interpreted as a double click). The unofficial Te", "context": "", "use_case": "official Teams client", "switched_from": "", "story": "Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux"}]}