Honestly, Teams is a poor man's Slack. It's competent. Nothing more.
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Microsoft is launching new Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions today. Office 365 is getting rebranded + Microsoft Teams for consumers
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I'm already an Office 365 user. I don't really see a difference here for the personal subscription. Is it just a rebranding and nothing else?
I think I paid $15-35 for multiple copies of office through school and work over the years and given all but one away to family members. I don't have any incling of desire to ever subscribe to a productivity suite, even if it's rebranded as a lifestyle suite. They sure love to paywall their new features behind the subscription license, but none of them will get me to bite. That aspect makes the whole model pretty abhorrent, IMO.
For as much as I shit on Teams when they first rolled it out, it's quickly grown pretty damn powerful
Other apps may do individual functions better, but the integration of the entire suite, and the mobile execution has massively improved.
They switched to Teams at my work recently as well.
Great for video meetings. Much better than WebEx.
But still use Slack for messaging.
Great for video meetings. Much better than WebEx.
But still use Slack for messaging.
Teams runs like shit here on mobile, barely updates what's happening, takes way too long. I had to use the browser version on my desktop.
Terrible first impression.
Terrible first impression.
Seeing some people ask why some would keep a sub constantly.
I have Office 365 Home. I share it with my parents and my sister. This gives us all the Office products which I don't use by my family does all the time, and 5 TBs of storage space.
The 5 TBs alone are worth the sub. Office may as well come as a bonus.
I have Office 365 Home. I share it with my parents and my sister. This gives us all the Office products which I don't use by my family does all the time, and 5 TBs of storage space.
The 5 TBs alone are worth the sub. Office may as well come as a bonus.
and I use zoom for video calls/screen sharing.
The density of information, channel/thread organization, and search in slack are a few orders of magnitude better than Teams.
I mean, I know Google Docs still kinda sucks, but if that's all you're using it for why not just use that?
My college email address from years ago qualified me for a Windows 10 EDU key and a 2019 Office standalone.
MS just needs to bite the bullet and let Teams do email and then kill Outlook.
Teams already does everything Outlook does minus the email part.
Teams mobile app is even pretty damn good.
But I'm glad I have Office 365 at work (I'm pretty much a daily Powerpoint, Word, and Excel user at this point). And I'm glad that Teams has picked up so much traction in my otherwise communication technology avoidant workplace.
But I would never pay for an Office subscription for home use. Then again it'd stop me from having a decade-old Office on my laptop and 2016 on my desktop. Still, I don't get enough use at home to feel like it's worth it.
Yep. Zoom is easy and free and on every platform so it took over from everyone else.
This is the boat we are in and I wanted to ask you guys how this works and what they options are.
Right now, all 4 of us have O365 access (adults each from work, kids each from school). At home on our desktop and laptop we just have old Office 2010 or 13 that was standalone back then. I have an outlook email address i set up to login to windows.
Can I install locally O365 from either our work or kids 365 subscriptions (that option is apparently there), then use my personal outlook email for day to day stuff at home?
I'm pretty sure you can pick and choose which pieces you install from Microsoft's office webpage, if you log in with your windows account.
But I'm not entirely sure how the login goes when access is provided by an employer or if there even is an enterprise-type agreement.
yea, you shouldn't be using zoom. They don't care about privacy, security and seemingly aren't end to end encrypted.
Maybe we shouldn't use Zoom after all
After a year of security and privacy scandals, should we trust Zoom to keep our video calls private?
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Make sure uninvited guests don't crash your next video conference.
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this shit is amateur hour at best, intentionally insecure at worst.
i said it in another thread but chat is marginally better in slack. However i hate having to open a side blade just to see a thread from a chat, vs teams its all right there, when in a public channe in slack or teamsl.
Teams is a collaboration tool with it running on top of sharepoint. So yea if people just put shit in willy nilly its going to be crap.
but at conference calls and screen sharing its no contest teams is better.
