MS Teams
Video conferencing, Basic chat within MS Office ecosystem, Communication and collaboration for general users
It's a capable but sometimes noisy core tool for Office users, though large or specialized teams may find it limiting.
Complex internal communication for large organizations, Users needing a focused, low-noise space for client work
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FIRST-HAND READS
What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.
“Add in MS teams into the mix and the system just starts screaming.”
NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-18
“awful integration with Sharepoint (and Sharepoint in MS Teams and OneDrive)”
NEGATIVE · integration · Hacker News · 2026-06-03
“it was rejected by the system. Do we now have surveillance in default ms teams?”
NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-02
“I struggle to remember how to add an attachment in MS Teams, which I use every day.”
NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-15
“my 2 biggest pet peeves with MS Teams: 1. trying to edit the first letter in a `preformat block`. It's not possible. It will either exit the block or go to the second letter. 2. Consistency with bold/italics. Bold a selection of text. Then backspace once. Are you going to write bold or normal? What does ctrl-B do? Anytime you backspace into a bolded section, it will convert your editing back to bold, and you cannot disable bold.”
NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-13
“At least in MS Teams I can isolate it into its separate ungoogled Chromium installation and treat that as a shitty app, without having to install crap onto my system.”
MIXED · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-02-03
“as bloated, slow and annoying as the Electron one. MS Teams seems to have some incurable infection. If I could, MS Teams would be the second tool I'd eject out”
NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-01-27
“logging into MS Teams will automatically link your local account with the Microsoft account, thus starting the automatic upload of all kinds of stuff unrelated to MS Teams”
NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-01-23
“This never happened in the last 6 years I had been making videocalls with MS Teams on Linux.”
MIXED · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-12-02
“screen sharing in MS Teams(!) running in MS Edge for Linux does work”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-11-16
“latest MS Teams update on MacOS fetched an installer that asked me for 1.2GB (Yes, G!) of disk space”
NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-11-04
“MS Teams is so laughably bad, I think I have never used a worse chat/voice chat/video chat program”
NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-10-21
“only bother with the latter when I need MS Teams, or some other proprietary software that tends to be more reliable on Windows”
NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-10-12
“ms teams copilot cannot look meaningfully through your messages”
NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-10-05
“MS Teams regularly either ignores keyboard switch, or switches 50% broken, half the keys”
NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-10-02
“big problem with MS Teams replacing tabs with nbsps in XML code snippet blocks. It breaks our pom files.”
NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-09-19
“MS Teams is feature-wise better in most cases. Especially functionality for formatting posts is far better in Teams.”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-09-19
“MS Teams works pretty well if you don't put too many channels in a team”
MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2025-09-08
“accidentally calling a group chat of 50 people in MS Teams for the same reason is really annoying”
NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-08-15
“the amount of broken behavior that is entering code in MS Teams”
NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-06-07
“We **do not have Teams Premium**, and the upgrade cost is too high to justify for this single use case.”
NEGATIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-05-01
“applications like MS Teams takes 8-20 seconds to load (and that is sometimes being nice!)”
NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-05-01
“I've had embarrassing moments when my OS/MS teams crashes during a meeting”
NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-05-01
“i hated using MS Teams (in the past) so much, i would probably look for a new job immediately if my company decided to do this today”
NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-05-01
“I couldn't activate my camera in MS Teams meetings (for work) without completely killing my audio”
NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-04-05
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