Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Teams
Since we have transitioned from plain Office licenses to an Office 365 subscription, we have started to adopt Microsoft Teams. It has become, at least partially, an improved way to centralise ourselves per project. It brings together team members, meeting notes, files and online meetings in a single environment. But this change is only partially implemented in our company.
- Integration with Office applications (Word, Excel)
- Integrated meetings
- Centralising per project
- It remains a confusing mixture of apps
- Each individual component has better industry replacements (apart from Excel probably)
- It is heavy on CPU, certainly on macOS, but also on Windows.
- Integrated meetings
- One license including Office tools
- Works cross-platform for all people and devices
- Single license type for all usage
- gradual improvement on better digital collaborative work
- Still a confusing mess of bringing everything together coherently
With the single Office 365 license we needed anyway, we found no further reason to also continue using Webex, Gotomeeting or Zoom (we had a Webex licence for a while). Thankfully, the Microsoft Teams meetings proved to work well and reliable, especially during COVID times, but we were applying them already before. Screen sharing, chat, file sharing work well and performance seems fine in our usage scenarios.
Do you think Microsoft Teams delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Microsoft Teams's feature set?
Yes
Did Microsoft Teams live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Microsoft Teams go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Microsoft Teams again?
Yes
Microsoft Teams Feature Ratings
Using Microsoft Teams
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Technical support not required Quick to learn Convenient Familiar | Unnecessarily complex Not well integrated Inconsistent |
- Joining a meeting
- Sharing a file
- Editing notes in OneNote notebook inside Microsoft Teams
- Adding a Microsoft Teams Meeting on macOS cannot be done reliably from within Teams
- Syncing folders and files between Teams, OneDrive and desktop OneDrive client
- You still cannot search in a Wiki tab in Microsoft Teams, making the wiki useless
Yes - It works reasonably well on iPad, especially with the separate apps for Teams, OneNote, OneDrive, Word, Excel.
The web interface from within the desktop app takes getting used to. And the experience is not entirely coherent between platforms (mobile, desktop, browser). But all in all, it is sufficiently usable, albeit not as elegant as competitors.
The web interface from within the desktop app takes getting used to. And the experience is not entirely coherent between platforms (mobile, desktop, browser). But all in all, it is sufficiently usable, albeit not as elegant as competitors.