I switched from slack after 4 years and I honestly can't say I've missed any features.
Ask HN: Is anyone using Microsoft Teams?
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Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using Microsoft Teams?
#32I switched from slack after 4 years and I honestly can't say I've missed any features.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using Microsoft Teams?
#33My opinion(1), after playing a while with MS Teams: The pros : the product is quite good, let say it is good enough and much better than the status quo of relying on emails or Whatsapp. It is integrated with the Office suite, and if I understand correctly, will be free for pro Office users. It has a handful of very interesting product decisions, like threaded replies and iframe apps. The cons : MS Teams is not as pol…
The problem with the product is that it really exists to keep big companies on the O365 E3+ plans. Microsoft's big focus now is to retain subscription revenue. Skype and OneDrive are shit and MS is trying to bulk up the ecosystem around these products. If you work for a big company, you're not going to get approval to POC Slack, Dropbox, Webex, etc as long as you're stuck with the Microsoft all you can eat subscripti…
I think you're right. Organizations who use Slack don't use email anymore. MS saw the writing on the wall, and decided to integrate an email-killer in their product suite instead of being eaten from the outside. Rather smart strategy, if you ask me.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using Microsoft Teams?
#34We're slowly rolling it out to individual product teams in our small (~50 people) ms-based dev organisation. Things are going reasonably well. We'd have picked slack over teams in a minute, though it has compliance issues making it unusable for us - slack is just more polished and has a lot more that you can get out of the box / with plugins. That said, teams still has some great features for us, so we'll stick with…
Good enough product vs crappy status quo + massive Office userbase = will probably end well for them :-)
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using Microsoft Teams?
#35My opinion(1), after playing a while with MS Teams: The pros : the product is quite good, let say it is good enough and much better than the status quo of relying on emails or Whatsapp. It is integrated with the Office suite, and if I understand correctly, will be free for pro Office users. It has a handful of very interesting product decisions, like threaded replies and iframe apps. The cons : MS Teams is not as pol…
The problem with the product is that it really exists to keep big companies on the O365 E3+ plans. Microsoft's big focus now is to retain subscription revenue. Skype and OneDrive are shit and MS is trying to bulk up the ecosystem around these products. If you work for a big company, you're not going to get approval to POC Slack, Dropbox, Webex, etc as long as you're stuck with the Microsoft all you can eat subscripti…
OneDrive ( then SkyDrive ) used to be awesome. A folder showing all my files, including the online only ones. Then they ruined it. I still don't understand why.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using Microsoft Teams?
#36We're using it. It is bad. Company just started to introduce Salck, MS announced this thing and we had to jump ship because everything they deliver is considered flawless in certain circles. The mobile app is crap. There's no Linux client. No 3rd party integration that I've seen so far. Lots of bugs and I highly doubt that this project will move/improve at a VS Code level. A beta for your corporate communication need…
Do your own 3rd party integrations if you need them, it's a 10 minute job and the API for making them happen is amazingly simple and easy. That's where integrations generally start with new platforms, and the commercially provided ones will of course arrive eventually.
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using Microsoft Teams?
#37My opinion(1), after playing a while with MS Teams: The pros : the product is quite good, let say it is good enough and much better than the status quo of relying on emails or Whatsapp. It is integrated with the Office suite, and if I understand correctly, will be free for pro Office users. It has a handful of very interesting product decisions, like threaded replies and iframe apps. The cons : MS Teams is not as pol…
> It is integrated with the Office suite
What does this mean, really? Can I start teams chats from Office? Can I see all chats/emails from a person or group?
My main gripe with MS Office is that it's 2017 and they still treat Mac as an inferior platform. No delayed emails, bad handling of bullet lists, and the obvious limitations in using any groupware functionality (this I can understand). About the one good side is that I don't need X1 search, as MS Outlook uses macOS spotlight indexing which is fast compared to PC (though the search operators are weak and OS spotlight is contaminated with email results).
Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using Microsoft Teams?
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem with the product is that it really exists to keep big companies on the O365 E3+ plans. Microsoft's big focus now is to retain subscription revenue. Skype and OneDrive are shit and MS is trying to bulk up the ecosystem around these products. If you work for a big company, you're not going to get approval to POC Slack, Dropbox, Webex, etc as long as you're stuck with the Microsoft all you can eat subscripti…
OneDrive ( then SkyDrive ) used to be awesome. A folder showing all my files, including the online only ones. Then they ruined it. I still don't understand why.
They have a compulsion to recycle parts that are there. OneDrive is SharePoint, so you get much of the baggage that comes with SharePoint.
They also offer feature parity with on-prem SharePoint, which kneecaps the product. The main point of that product is to block Box or Dropbox sales.
It's only now getting better, in the form of a mobile app on Windows 10 only.