In my experience Teams is great for calls (both audio and video), horrible for chat. I guess because it's built on top of Skype codebase? (just a guess)
The chat portion of Teams is so very poorly designed compared to other corporate chat systems I've used.
I mean even copy and paste doesn't work correctly. You highlight text, copy it and Teams inserts its own extra content in there. That's basic functionality and it's broken.
Or you get tagged into conversations and with no way to mute them. For a busy chat that alert notification can be going off continuously. Of course the alert pop up has been handily placed to cover the unmute icon in calls, so when someone asks you a question you can't answer them.
Teams feels like a desperate corporate reaction to Slack with features added as a tickbox exercise but no thought given to actual usability.
I never thought that Slack or the whatever Google's chat system is currently called was in any way outstanding until I was made to use the dumpster fire that is Teams.
It's a classic example of where the customers, corporate CTOs, are not the end users of a product.
All I notice is that my time going from calendar to Teams call is ~30 seconds due to slow site loading and extra clicks. Calendar to Meet call is two clicks and loads instantly with sane defaults for camera/microphone settings. It's significantly better than teams or zoom in those regards.
If you're fully immersed in the Microsoft ecosystem, going from your Outlook calendar to a Teams call is a single click, and the desktop app doesn't take as long to get into the call.
I use both and shudder every time I am forced to use the lame web app alternatives to Word, Excel & PowerPoint on desktop - mostly because my child's school runs on web alternatives. Ironically even on Android, Outlook seems to be the only major client that actually provides a unified inbox across mail accounts due to which I switched & use my Gmail accounts through it.
Having used both in a professional capacity I have to say Teams is shockingly worse than Google Meet.
I’ve never had my laptop’s sound like an Apache helicopter while on a call with Google Meet yet simply having Teams open had me searching for a bomb shelter.
All video call software suck in various ways. Corporate IT throttling&filtering and analyzing traffic with a mismash of third party offerings ”to increase security” does not help.
The least two features the average user wants. Most users are happy if sound and video work instantly, always. Maybe some marketing department should focus on that?
(Don't know keet; yes, encryption is still an important festure).
Peer to peer makes it as fast as possible because it's not having to pass through a 3rd party's servers (which, for cost reasons, normally limit the bandwidth of the communication channel they are serving).
This is just like when you pull down a torrent. You can do it as fast as your bandwidth and the bandwidth of the peers who are seeding it to you allow. Which can be blazingly fast.
