I haven’t had a Teams meeting where something hasn’t gone wrong. Either mic or video don’t come on or cut off half way through, you can’t get in at all, or you get cut off during the middle.
I refuse video calls in almost all cases. Today I was the only person on a landline unseen and everyone else chose to be seen. It worked fine. I don't know everyone seems to want to see people on phone calls. Since the 1920s solicitors have used telephones for work and have not had to see the person at the other end.
Teams is popular, as pancakes has pointed out, partly because it's bundled in free for any firms who already have a Microsoft 365 (i.e. Office 365) subscription. Zoom is mega-popular but that kind of bundling gives Microsoft a huge advantage is driving adoption against other competitors. It should also, in theory, integrate better with Office than Zoom but I haven't seen that so far.
The other major reason some like Teams is Zoom's infamous security issues from earlier (Zoombombing) which scared off a number of law firms' IT departments (as well as clients' ones). I use both and prefer Zoom - it is much more intuitive - but let's not pretend Zoom's overlords didn't relegate security priorities in order to achieve rapid growth early on.
In any case, both Zoom and Teams have seriously raised the bar for video call apps in 2020. Does anyone remember the crapness of GoToMeeting or Webex?
I know little about either Zoom or Teams, but some regulated organisations seem to be gravitating towards Teams due to it being more compatible with their compliance obligations, particularly the recording and archiving of communications.
Do Links still use Webex? Whenever I got an invitation from them on that, I couldn't access it from my work computer.
Err - Teams video calling is part of a much wider collaboration and project management tool. They are incomparable. I appreciate self-important gimps who still rely on email and w**ky leather bound notebooks to “organise” probably don’t get it.
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In my limited experience works better than Zoom and doesn't have an arbitrary time limit to encourage you to subscribe.
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I like it more than Zoom tbh.
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Yeah yeah. Dare to be different.
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heh It is just simpler to use.
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It's moderately less shit than Zoom. Googlemeet seems okay too.
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Betamax was technically superior to VHS so not sure what OP means here if trying to diss Teams (which btw I agree is sh1te)
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I really like BT MeetMe conference calls - proper old skol.
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or.... it's the system adopted by their employer.
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Teams is awful
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3-Dux has left the conference
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Way better than Zoom. It feels very antiquated to still receive Zoom invites now.
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You've been invited to a conference call. Press *1 to accept.
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I haven’t had a Teams meeting where something hasn’t gone wrong. Either mic or video don’t come on or cut off half way through, you can’t get in at all, or you get cut off during the middle.
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We use both. I prefer teams
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My place has settled on teams too. No complaints
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Can't say I notice much difference between Zoom and Teams for calls.
Slack is much better than Teams for chat though
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I refuse video calls in almost all cases. Today I was the only person on a landline unseen and everyone else chose to be seen. It worked fine. I don't know everyone seems to want to see people on phone calls. Since the 1920s solicitors have used telephones for work and have not had to see the person at the other end.
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*talks to self on Zoom*
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"Doesn't have an arbitrary time limit to make you subscribe" - like subscription service Microsoft Teams?
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Teams actually is free tbf. So is OneNote.
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Teams is popular, as pancakes has pointed out, partly because it's bundled in free for any firms who already have a Microsoft 365 (i.e. Office 365) subscription. Zoom is mega-popular but that kind of bundling gives Microsoft a huge advantage is driving adoption against other competitors. It should also, in theory, integrate better with Office than Zoom but I haven't seen that so far.
The other major reason some like Teams is Zoom's infamous security issues from earlier (Zoombombing) which scared off a number of law firms' IT departments (as well as clients' ones). I use both and prefer Zoom - it is much more intuitive - but let's not pretend Zoom's overlords didn't relegate security priorities in order to achieve rapid growth early on.
In any case, both Zoom and Teams have seriously raised the bar for video call apps in 2020. Does anyone remember the crapness of GoToMeeting or Webex?
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I know little about either Zoom or Teams, but some regulated organisations seem to be gravitating towards Teams due to it being more compatible with their compliance obligations, particularly the recording and archiving of communications.
Do Links still use Webex? Whenever I got an invitation from them on that, I couldn't access it from my work computer.
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Err - Teams video calling is part of a much wider collaboration and project management tool. They are incomparable. I appreciate self-important gimps who still rely on email and w**ky leather bound notebooks to “organise” probably don’t get it.
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