Microsoft Teams
A comprehensive collaboration platform within Office 365, providing centralized chat, file sharing, and HD video meetings. Accessible on multiple platforms, it offers enterprise-grade security and compliance, customizable notifications, and private to group chat sessions.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Android Auto
- Microsoft 365
- Apple Car Play
Features
Integrations
Microsoft Office
Sharepoint
Trello
Azure DevOps
Google Drive
Features
- Team Collaboration
- Planner
- Video Calling
- Calendar View
- Noise Reduction
- Real time collaboration
- Dark Mode
- Reminders
- VoiP Calls
- Live Captions Translation
- Team Messaging
- Private messaging
- Multiple languages
- Breakout rooms
- Shared Calendar
- Team work
- Access Control
- Video Conferencing
- Built-in Calendar
Tags
- Video Chat
- team-conferencing
- team-meeting
Microsoft Teams News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft launches new Premium plan with Office apps & Copilot Pro, plus updated app iconsMicrosoft is introducing a new $19.99-per-month plan called Microsoft 365 Premium, which combines t...
- Maoholguin published news article about Microsoft Teams
Microsoft dodges EU antitrust penalty by unbundling Teams from OfficeMicrosoft has avoided an EU fine after the European Commission accepted its commitments concerning ...
- Maoholguin published news article about Windows 11
Windows 11 is getting several new AI features to core apps and Copilot Vision on desktopMicrosoft is introducing a wide range of new AI capabilities to Windows 11 version 24H2 through upd...
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- K0RR reviewed Microsoft Teams
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What is Microsoft Teams?
Microsoft Teams is the chat-based workspace in Office 365 that integrates your team's people, content, and tools to be increase engagement and efficacy.
All your team conversations, files, meetings, and apps can be found in a single workspace you share with your coworkers and peers. Teams is also supported across Android, iOS, Windows, and the web.
Features:
• Easily manage your team’s projects with file editing and sharing on the go • Connect face-to-face with HD audio and video, and join meetings from almost anywhere • Chat privately, in selected groups, or communicate with the entire team in dedicated channels • @ mention individual team members, or the whole team at once, to get your colleagues’ attention • Support for saving important conversations and custom notification patterns • Search your chats and team conversations to quickly find what you need • Get enterprise-level security and compliance alongside the rest of the Office 365 suite
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Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
Subscription ranging between $5 and $20 per month + free version with limited functionality.Rating
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Comments and Reviews
My university uses the platform, and I was pleasantly surprised how good it is, and I use it to collab with my friends from med school. Quite snappy, doesn't kill my PC (MacOS) and integrates the office suite and sharepoint very well.
No Linux support and slow performance. There are better options from competitors in my opinion
Doesn't support uploading basic image formats (like webp) as profile picture.
Is that an Anti-Productivity tool?
Seriously UX is a disaster and the app is globally infuriating to use. If it was my company I would not even consider this as an option to work with... Oh and Microsoft Office Suite is a privacy nightmare too
Has many widgets that can be useful for corporate meetings, but overall it's a clumsy, bloated and extremely resource intensive program that is profoundly unpleasant to use.
In September 2022, Microsoft announced that they'd be retiring their Linux Teams client in December 2022 in favour of a new “Progressive Web Application” (PWA) version of Teams.
Terrible experience on Windows: eats resources (cpu + ram), is slow, and generally not pleasant to use.
Even worse experience on Linux: only the web app (a.k.a. PWA, which is exactly the same as the web app) is supported. Basic things like seeing more than 4 participants in a call are not supported, no remote control, device settings are randomly broken (no mic and/or speakers), notifications not working consistently, ...