Ask HN: Is anyone using Microsoft Teams? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using Microsoft Teams?

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Post by donmatito » Sat, Jan 07, 2017, 10:13 PM UTC

darklajid wrote: post #14

We'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…

MS Teams is in preview for now. I can tell you they are actively reaching out to Slack app developers to port their integrations to MS Teams in anticipation for the GA launch. I hope they solve the bugs, UI and mobile client issues by then too.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using Microsoft Teams?

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Post by pvdebbe » Sat, Jan 07, 2017, 10:14 PM UTC

Our company bought into Office 365 ecosystem and Teams was a natural choice to try. We haven't used Slack or similar tool before.

Well, Teams allows discussions, but at least in November its built-in Skype for Business (SfB) client worked exactly like the other SfB clients work: not at all well with others. (Serious issues with race conditions on how the server sends the messages to what client, with several listening clients everything turns into a mess!) Given that it wasn't working for us to run ordinary SfB plus Teams, we had to drop it. Can't say I'm overly depressed over this decision... ;)

If Teams's SfB client gains the features the original SfB lacks, or alternatively if Teams would allow to disable SfB part of the software altogether, it might have been workable. I personally didn't like the intrinsic delays the chat process have unlike say IRC (feels very much realtime even though the delays are there under the surface).

There's no info on what updates Teams has seen so we've kept to our original comm channels for the time being.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using Microsoft Teams?

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Post by ndespres » Sat, Jan 07, 2017, 10:16 PM UTC

After using Slack on my team for about a year to get away from the annoyances of Lync/Skype for Business, management made us shut it down for not being an approved product/not defined by company policy/contributing to team fragmentation across other depts who weren't on it. Fair enough, I guess. We turned on Teams as it comes with our existing Office 365 subscription and we are much likelier to get approval to use it for cost and "Microsoft is a known quantity" reasons. I was excited for something that would finally help us transition into using anything better than Lync compabywide.

So I was disappointed with the chat experience, the notifications, the way my colleagues still using Lync wouldn't consistently get my messages, and the way groups vs private messages are displayed. We all found it really frustrating to use.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using Microsoft Teams?

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Post by izacus » Sat, Jan 07, 2017, 10:20 PM UTC

darklajid wrote: post #14

We'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…

Uhh, does Slack ship Linux client now?

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using Microsoft Teams?

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Post by jamies888888 » Sat, Jan 07, 2017, 10:29 PM UTC

izacus wrote: post #24

darklajid wrote: post #14

We'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…

Uhh, does Slack ship Linux client now?

Yeah, it's just Electron isn't it?

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using Microsoft Teams?

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Post by pier25 » Sat, Jan 07, 2017, 10:31 PM UTC

jamies888888 wrote: post #25

izacus wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uhh, does Slack ship Linux client now?

Yeah, it's just Electron isn't it?

Yes, like in macOS or Windows.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using Microsoft Teams?

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 07, 2017, 10:37 PM UTC

apapli wrote: post #17

darklajid wrote: post #14

We'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…

You do know it is still in preview right? Also I use the web client and it works for me, although have to agree it would be nice if the mobile app had access to some of the tabbed content. What else is wrong with the mobile app from your perspective? Finally, here is the API reference if you want to look at it: https://dev.office.com/microsoft-teams I am looking forward to when they integrate Flow with Teams. That co…

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Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using Microsoft Teams?

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Post by anondecel0per » Sat, Jan 07, 2017, 10:44 PM UTC

darklajid wrote: post #14

We'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…

That's odd because our AppVeyor integration works fine. I've completely replaced slack at zero cost. It's brilliant so far for us.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using Microsoft Teams?

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Post by pducks32 » Sat, Jan 07, 2017, 10:47 PM UTC

I once did Client work that required certain data protection practices. Can anyone speak to Microsofts draw in that regard. Is it up to the standard you need if you work at a hospital or something like that?

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone using Microsoft Teams?

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Post by px1999 » Sat, Jan 07, 2017, 10:48 PM UTC

We'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 it for at least 2017. We've tried a few similar options before (primarily group chat) but they all had gaps / issues that resulted in them being not as useful/used as we'd have liked.

There are still a couple of massive gaps in teams for us:

* No on-premise TFS integration

* It seems that Office 365 is all or nothing - we can't tie the o365 account to our primary email address without it messing up external email routing.

If you're trying to replace a culture of email + some IM + files tucked away in some document management system that don't get updated as frequently as they should, it's a good start. If you've already got good communication then it's less valuable.