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Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023 by jacquesm on Monday February 13, 2023 @02:18PM (#34778736)
For me the ability to seamlessly start a meeting, pull in 10 participants from different organizations by just sharing a URL and be off to the races a few minutes later is what makes the difference. If I have to spend even a couple of minutes debugging audio/video issues, dealing with people that can't seem to join, people that are trying to install a client that they then can't get to work, people that need to make IDs for some proprietary system and so on then it's a non-starter for me.

I'm fine with asking the meeting organizer to have an account but the participants should just be able to use the web client with a minimum of hassle.

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Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023 by wvenable on Monday February 13, 2023 @03:03PM (#34779493)
I've never had a problem sharing a URL to get outside people in a meeting with Teams and, of course, it works in the browser. Are you sure this is still a problem?
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Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023 by chrisfrantz on Monday February 13, 2023 @03:11PM (#34779650)
Teams has never worked reliably for me when sent a link from orgs that use Teams. Half the time we end up in my Zoom call and the people on the call always gripe about having to use Teams for the first few minutes.
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Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023 by prmoustache on Monday February 13, 2023 @03:45PM (#34780159)
The issues sometimes aren't about teams but microsoft authentication. You are sometimes forced to use incognito mode or cannot join.

Plus it doesn't work on any browser, even if said browser has capability to run it, or on mobile, unless you install their app.

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Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023 by cge on Monday February 13, 2023 @04:07PM (#34780501)
This has been such a problem that, going to a significant scientific conference that was online during the pandemic, and had organizers who insisted on using Teams, the organizers asked everyone to provide a personal email address in addition to their academic one, because they had had too many problems in the past with people being unable to log in to their Teams system if their email address was associated with another university's Office 365 system.

They proceeded to primarily use Teams as a chatroom to let people know when the Zoom meetings were starting.

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Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023 by boring_twenties on Monday February 13, 2023 @03:19PM (#34779757)
> the ability to seamlessly start a meeting

Must be nice. For me it simply refuses to start or join any meeting, gives a useless error message about trying again later.

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Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023 by RHSeeger on Monday February 13, 2023 @06:40PM (#34782653)
The fact that there's almost never a dialin for Teams meetings makes me hate it. I want to be able to dial in with my desk phone.
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