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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by andylynch on Thursday September 22, 2022 @06:30AM (#32937013)
Microsoft also had MindAlign, which was an excellent no-nonsense group chat originally spun off from UBS (!) and widely liked by its users at various big firms, mostly banks- basically it was like IRC with management tools and record keeping added to meet compliance and audit needs. Bits got folded into Lync/ Skype for Business but those were never as good and certain customers are still using the original product.
Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by xmcqdpt2 on Thursday September 22, 2022 @06:47AM (#32937133)
I work at a bank and we currently (but for how long??) use Symphony which is "Slack but for finance"

https://symphony.com/

It's way better than teams in core features, although integrations are missing, and it doesn't have call functionality.

Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by andylynch on Thursday September 22, 2022 @08:40AM (#32938037)
Goldmans’ response to Bloomberg reporters looking at stuff they shouldn’t have… Symphony is pretty good. It does have video calling but I think many customers opt not to use it.