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Zoom CEO says workers can't build trust or unite... on Zoom (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

At work Teams has been great.

Zoom is too bare-bomes.

The I hacked it together at 3am feel of the zoom interface makes me actively hate the damn thing.

Like teams feels like a communication application. Zoom feels like a hobby project.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol, I am the opposite.

Teams feels bloated and buggy.
Zoom is fast, can handle 100+ streams with ease, and allows mods/plugins to extend as far as you want, and
on zoom you can draw on the other person's screen while sharing.
On zoom, when a meeting starts I have a "incoming call sound" so I drop what I am doing and jump on the meeting. (I can't install on my work compy though... Sigh)

Teams has not implemented those basic features.

[–] hascat 4 points 1 year ago

Teams definitely feels bloated, but having used it for years at my lost job, I can't say I ever found it buggy. The only issue I ever had with it was actually with my bluetooth headset sometimes not being recognized, but it was never clear if that was an issue with Teams, or Windows, or the headset itself.

The Outlook integration for planning and joining meetings was super handy. If there was some way to get email in Teams then I never would have had to open Outlook again. That would have been nice.

I think the features need a lot of refinement, though. Having threaded and non-threaded chats is clumsy at best. I found the threaded chats to be far inferior, and the inability to search for non-threaded chats was very limiting. Search in general was borderline useless.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Teams on Linux is pretty garbage though. They removed the desktop app and replaced it with a half-baked PWA which is exceptionally buggy on every browser, even Edge. I can't believe I did so many interviews over Teams this year, thankfully none of those jobs hired me and I got another job using Google Meet which actually works lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately it's the only viable option for some of our executive team meeting. I live in a country where there are two official languages and we sometime needs to have interpreters so that those who only speak one language can participate. The Interpreter feature of Zoom, with multiple audio tracks is mostly the only reason we're stuck with them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fair.

We use the sign interpreter feature in Teams and it's really good. The live captions struggles a bit with the Aussie accent though.

But mostly it's the SharePoint/OneDrive/Outlook/m365 integration I find useful. If I was on Linus or macOS, I suspect I would feel differently.

OneDrive on Mac is ass.