Microsoft Teams
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“The good part is that it's a very good tool for that.”
“Teams and W11 are some of most stable, "it just works" pieces of software coming from them I can think of”
Caveats and dissent
“I’m so glad we use other tools daily, and keep these around for the convenience of collaborating with some external parties who use it.”
“Teams also keeps a 100% persistent record of everything you say even if you delete it.”
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“The loss of institutional knowledge was absolutely punishing and costly.”
“Teams is miserable.”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Microsoft Teams is a red flag 6 mentions
- France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US 3 mentions
- Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux 3 mentions
- Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google 1 mention
- Muse Spark Open 1 mention
- Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available? 1 mention
Also written as Teams. Data: microsoft-teams.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 37
“In universities we use Teams”
“I’m so glad we use other tools daily, and keep these around for the convenience of collaborating with some external parties who use it.”
“Teams also keeps a 100% persistent record of everything you say even if you delete it.”
“The good part is that it's a very good tool for that.”
“The loss of institutional knowledge was absolutely punishing and costly.”
“we use Teams, Outlook, Sharepoint as side products of Office”
“I love when people shit on teams and provide no basis for why it’s so much worse than all the other chat offerings”
“Teams and W11 are some of most stable, "it just works" pieces of software coming from them I can think of”
“Teams is miserable.”
“I use it, but only through the web interface.”
“Microsoft Teams won because Microsoft bundles it for free, even though it's garbage.”
“MS Teams is terrible, and yet it's gotten this far.”
“To me it looked absurd.”
“Teams, SharePoint, Google Docs, someone somewhere is doing those things much better.”
“Teams still kind of sucks”
“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”
“No software should make anyone miss using MS Teams”
“I get a modal pop-up telling me I have to “refresh” teams multiple times a day.”
“I use that emoji as a reaction in Teams a lot at work”
“Microsoft Teams, which is largely non-functional bullshit”
“They moved away from Teams because it objectively sucked”
“In case of friends, directly in Viber, and Teams.”
“I struggle to remember how to add an attachment in MS Teams, which I use every day.”
“At my office, we use Slack and Teams”
“I use teams at work and it's okay.”
“Teams for a client or two”
“Internally we use teams.”
“I just got switched to Teams at work and now I understand why no one ever chats on it.”
“Slack is a delight compared to Teams.”
“many of which are corporate applications, such as Teams and other Microsoft products”
“I wouldn't wish Teams on my worst enemy”
“Jira, Microsoft Teams, HP Printers, Ticketmaster, …”
“I mostly live in Visual Studio and Outlook/Teams.”
“released products that nearly everyone dislikes but still has to use for some reason (Teams comes to mind)”
“I’ve been using teams for years in a browser (on my FreeBSD desktop), and I find it good enough for doing my job”
“Teams is a must if you are a professional in Australia.”
“the official client has a bug where it will open chats in a separate window even when the user did not intend to”