Teams has its issues, but compared to skype its amazing in my opinion. Granted, skype is a pretty low bar to compare with, but still.
At my last company, Teams was introduced as a tool besides skype - and everyone was encouraged to move meetings etc. whenever possible over to Teams. It worked out pretty well, after a few months skype meetings became the exception, almost everything, especially if only techies were included, was happening on Teams.
I recommend to give it a serious try, some of it features do suck (notification settings etc. are absolutely horrendous and seem to not properly work half the time) but overall it improved the ways people communicated a lot compared to skype. At least that was my experience :)
> Teams has its issues, but compared to skype its amazing in my opinion. Granted, skype is a pretty low bar to compare with, but still.
Yeah, it's amazing that such an aborted thing ever seen the day of life. Skype looks like a windows program. Team looks like an Android game.
About corporate: Skype can do a 250 people meeting, Teams can do only 100.
It is like in the old M$ joke: How wonderful it's gonna be when they will get it.
> At my last company, Teams was introduced as a tool besides skype - and everyone was encouraged to move meetings etc. whenever possible over to Teams. It worked out pretty well, after a few months skype meetings became the exception, almost everything, especially if only techies were included, was happening on Teams.
In my company people preffer Skype.
> I recommend to give it a serious try, some of it features do suck (notification settings etc. are absolutely horrendous and seem to not properly work half the time) but overall it improved the ways people communicated a lot compared to skype. At least that was my experience :)
It is a piece of crap. The only "feature" above skype is that it has these groups. From an UI point of view is a piece of crap. Who was the idiot that conceived such a crappy interface ? When i start a new chat i want a new chat not to see my last chat with someone else.
- Coworker too silent in a conference call? You can't adjust their volume.
- Want to paste some code? Hope you like smileys everywhere! (This one alone blows my mind. How is this still a thing?)
- Want to send something longer than two twitter messages? Nope, can't have that! Please chunk it into separate messages.
- You receive an image. Why does it take three clicks before you can actually see it?
- How many Skype apps would you like? There's Skype for Business, Skype (the normal windows program), Skype (the Windows app)... Knowing the nonsense that is Microsoft's account system, you probably can't even communicate between them.
- Small hiccup in your connection? Video call now stays at crappy resolution. Solution? Switch to "show full video". Or back from it (cropped). Or fiddle with other unrelated stuff and pray. It's completely erratic.
- You chose "show full video"? Enjoy doing that again in 5 minutes when Skype decides it would really rather crop that person on the side of the frame.
- Trying to edit the middle of a message before sending? Enjoy our state-of-the-art "run spell check on the main thread after every character". Now you can type your message and then watch it appear on the screen in slow-mo over the next five seconds! (Not sure if this is 100% Skype's fault, but I haven't seen it elsewhere.)
Yeah, you pretty much summed up all features of skype.
You can chat and you can screenshare.
However, I do expect a little bit more than that in 2020 to be honest - I wanna be able to paste code snippets or the like without having to fear that skype introduces some weird special characters when copying it out of skype again (which caused super weird issues more than once).
I want to talk asynchronously: Skype (at least in the for-business variant that I know) is very intrusive; if someone messages you you get a window in the face, and if you click it away you have to do some seriously weird digging to see the message again.
Similarly, I want chat persistence that is not an absolute pain in the butt: If I wanna check what a colleague sent me three days ago in a chat, this has to be like one or two clicks away, not scrolling through stuff.
I want to talk to multiple people at once regularly (a team, a workgroup, you name it) without having to set up the group every single time.
I want to share GIFs and pictures, not just links.
... hope that gives you a bit of an idea on why I'm not particularly fond of skype :)
That's the reasons I like skype. It's for talking one to one. When I get a message, it's because somebody needs help now. Otherwise they'd send an email or use the group chat software.
The auto reformatting is annoying though. Outlook does even worse, always replacing dash with long unicode dash.
This is something you can configure in outlook, go to settings, mail, autocorrect or something like that. You will see a table with all the substition and you can edit it, or completely disable
At my last company, Teams was introduced as a tool besides skype - and everyone was encouraged to move meetings etc. whenever possible over to Teams. It worked out pretty well, after a few months skype meetings became the exception, almost everything, especially if only techies were included, was happening on Teams.
I recommend to give it a serious try, some of it features do suck (notification settings etc. are absolutely horrendous and seem to not properly work half the time) but overall it improved the ways people communicated a lot compared to skype. At least that was my experience :)