Microsoft Teams Reviews

Summary: My experience with Microsoft Teams is a short one but well-received. I use this on a daily basis to communicate with my team. It's one of the fastest and least buggy chatting services I've ever used compared to others. I manage over 30 files in a day which are shared through Microsoft almost instantly/automatically. It saves me the hassle of having to invite people manually. Even though it's slightly limited, it delivers exactly what you're looking for. A chatting and team management app.

Positive: Easy UI
Intuitive
Smooth handling
No lag at all
Directly connected to the cloud for easy file access

Negative: I don't think there's a thing I don't like about Microsoft teams, it does exactly what it's meant to do. I guess the only con is that it's slightly limited compared to other team management apps.

Summary: Overall this is a useful tool for getting work done and communicating with co-workers. This integrates with Window very well but I would like to have the default option be launch as needed. thanks.

Positive: The chat feature is the one that I am most familiar with as far as this software goes. It is easy to use and helps save on phone calls to co-workers. It's much faster to use chat to communicate. It also has meeting and calendar features that are useful too.

Negative: I don't like the fact that the default setting is to start up with Windows. I would like to be able to launch it only when I'm ready to use it.

Summary: Overall, for meeting purpose it is great but sometimes it feels a bit confusing.
You can great groups and channels.
It is fast and powerful with great tools.

Positive: It give you clear video with crisp sound.
Latency is very low.
Works fine on low bandwidth as well.
Security is great and reliable for confidential meetings.

Negative: It is not free.
A bit costly for small organisations.
Should have a liter version.

Summary: It's a good program just needs some things fixed and make it so that the product holds up to its name.

Positive: It's a great way to communicate with others throughout the company. It is quick and easy to use and to work with.

Negative: It tends to crash a lot. It doesn't work consistently due to Microsoft having issues multiple times with Azure.

Summary: A very positive development from Microsoft and a much better UX compared to Skype. Dev team should pat themselves on the back but also continue to take feedback via forums and make a world class product. :)

Positive: Fantastic integration with existing Office apps. Good customization options with dark and light modes. Notifications can be tailored in more options than I thought possible
Calls seem to use less data than Skype/Zoom, so crisp audio.

Negative: Meeting reminders sometimes disappear or alert very late into the scheduled time.
Cannot see all people in video at same time.
Team member status updates with a lag, so not always accurate.

Summary: Highly recommended.
It is a great application overall.
Besides a little optimization, everything is great.

Positive: So far best application for professional and casual video conferencing.
The sound and video quality are great.
File sharing is very convenient.

Negative: Application takes time to launch and crashes sometimes.
The interface is very difficult to understand, it could be made a little simpler.

Summary: One of the many systems out there for virtual meetings. I do not see anything that stands out to make this program better than others.

Positive: MS Teams is installed on many computers when purchased, so no installation in necessary. And since many already have it, there is quick access for those who already use it, no installation, no filling out a new form.

Negative: When not running in the background, it take a long time to launch. Fairly new to the market, so many are staying with what they use the most like Zoom, WebEx , Skype or BlueJeans.

Summary: My experience with this has been good. I would recommend this to anyone looking at for something not expensive and easy to use.

Positive: I like that you are able to screen share and have meetings with more than one person in the free version.

Negative: I haven't used it enough to find anything I don't like yet. We just started using this.

Summary: Overall, the platform does what it should: allows me to join online training sessions and show trainers what I see on my screen.

Positive: Relatively easy to use platform. It allows remote users to view my screen, and I can give them control of it if needed.

Negative: I had a hard time joining a meeting unless I opened the email invite. Would be nice to just enter a meeting ID instead.

Summary: Overall the must have application for team collaboration. Microsoft is improving on features on continuous basis.

Positive: Can collaborate with the virtual team easily. Sharing feature is handy for remote working. Integration with Outlook helps easy in setting meetings and sync calendar.

Negative: The teams view is bit annoying. It would be nice if we can open multiple windows side by side.

Summary: Overall it is a great product, which is kind of cost efficient, it is a bit expensive but it is worth it.

Positive: it is a good instant messaging application that integrates very well with all of the Microsoft products, specially with outlook since it instantly sends a message for upcoming meetings.

Negative: When sharing screen, the option for stop sharing it is hard to find, thats the only con I've see with this service.

Summary: It's a good product, we use it periodically with outside vendors since it seems to be the most common app. Not the best, but certainly not the worst.

Positive: Easy to use, easy to set up a meeting, backgrounds aren't too bad to use either. Makes collaborating a bit more easier.

Negative: While it works well, it tends to freeze up more than Google Meet or Zoom.

Summary: Very good for projects, not as good for daily operational communication. With a few tweaks, teams would become exponentially more powerful. Teams should have templates based upon what the team is trying to accomplish. (Problems, Projects, Proposals, etc.)

Positive: I like the ability to navigate multiple teams and workflows. Teams makes it easy to communicate and store information in a centralized repository that is content/project-specific.

Negative: The interface becomes very busy if you are managing more than 3 teams. You can become overwhelmed if multiple people or groups begin trying to communicate multiple workstreams at the same time. It may be challenging to keep up with the chats, posts and your normal communication channels.

Summary: If you have a big organisation and you need to make a lot of groups, you can make them and manage them with ease.
It has reliable tools and has a complete environment in itself.

Positive: It feels like a complete environment where you can chat, share files, screen share, do a broadcast and have great video conferencing.
You can make separate channels with different categories and permissions.

Negative: Too confusing at the start.
Takes time to get used to it.
every participant has administrative powers.

Summary: We use teams because our Hoylu's Teams App and it's generally accepted by non-zoom enterprises as secure for Video Calling. We migrated from slack but still use both.

Positive: - Pinning links, docs, and Hoylu Workspaces to Channels for ease of access.
- Easy to schedule video calls.
- Chat stays open with external users for a bit.

Negative: - I don't get notifications for multiple orgs like we did in slack (only by email).
- You can't turn off Teams notifications so you're always dinging if you're having a side convo on a call.
- It takes a lot of bandwidth to screen share and be on video.