Oh so very broken. I wanted to do a quick meeting with a client, being used to do quick five minute video call using Google Chat + Meet I figured Teams would be able to do the same, but nope. Well you can, if you can find people, but in the end it’s quicker to just schedule a meeting and srnd them the URL to join.

Teams is basically junk, made from the bits of Skype no one else wanted and things that feel off Chrome.

Seems like every time I launch it, my virtual backgrounds are gone. I thought maybe I wasn't logged into teams, but no, I am. Now my only option is blur, if I can even find where they hid that!

My "favourite" Teams bug is just swallowing input in chat [1]. I mean c'mon, a networked chat app is basically a sophomore year CS assignment, and not demanding at that. Swallowing/droping input would be enough to fail the grade. But somehow, one of the richest companies in the world, own by a business mogul that's also a symbol of the tech industry, cannot get it right. That's mind boggling.

[1] Sometimes, when I open a new chat and quickly start typing, after 2-3 seconds the whole window suddenly redraws and whatever I've managed to type in so far is no longer there...

Even the most basic flows of Teams are broken.

If I open a call link in my browser it shows an option to open the desktop app.

Most of the times the Teams Desktop App (Electron) opens with a blank screen and starts to restart itself. After several iterations it will log out completely and ask me to login again. If the login is expired it should already at the first try.

I grew so tired of it that unless I need to share my screen I just use teams via browser.

Broken implies that at some point it was working.

Teams is broken, Microsoft is breaking everything

No Microsoft, I don’t want to openly the ppt in the browser or teams where it’s barely functional, graphs cannot be edited well, and everything is displayed differently than on the app.

No Microsoft I don’t want to save on your proprietary cloud, I have never done I so why must I cloud through three panes to get to the original file browser in order to save it elsewhere?!

No Microsoft, this is my work computer I don’t want news articles and web searches popping up in the task bar and notification area

Having been forced to use Teams by my employer since its inception I'm going to say that it has never worked properly since first release.

I always run Taskkill /IM Teams.exe /F command on my machine when I switch organizations in Teams and back. Without killing the Teams task I will not get any updates.

it is literally a hack. born out of a hackathon

Teams has been a phenomenally successful product. It might not work great in all dimensions but overall it delivers in so many ways.

To talk of it as broken implies it is there to do one thing (which it doesn’t) however it’s role is multifaceted and in totality it delivers.

> Teams has been a phenomenally successful product

I'd bet to a large extent because it's "free" if you are already in the O365 ecosystem.