GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
Regardless of what you think of Teams -- I myself have had nothing but poor experiences over 2.5 years of using it daily -- it&#x27;s <i>telling</i> that Microsoft has to require folks to use Teams.<p>I&#x27;m sure this is just Microsoft unifying everyone on the same comms platform, but seriously, I don&#x27;t know anyone who <i>chooses</i> Teams.<p>I know non-tech folks who chose Outlook 365 because of familiarity and then end up on Teams because it&#x27;s free, but there&#x27;s a difference between &quot;I chose an email&#x2F;identity platform that I know and I guess I&#x27;ll use its chat app too&quot; and &quot;I evaluated team chat offerings and Teams is our top pick.&quot;<p>Hell, at my most recent company (which was founded on O365 before I arrived) I replaced Teams chat interface with self-hosted Mattermost (Slack&#x27;s HIPAA-compliant tier is way too expensive for a startup) and it was roundly loved. We did still lean on Teams for its video chat, because most of our non-tech staff know how to schedule and join video meetings, but even then the top complaint I got was from folks on Windows laptops whose Teams plugin for Outlook somehow got corrupted (or something?) and suddenly Outlook&#x27;s Teams integration was gone.<p>Just an awful product all around -- said with no offense meant to the team building it.<p>_Update_: I now notice the text &quot;for the sole purpose of video conferencing&quot; which lines up with my use case, but still -- of all the video apps I put Teams down with Webex as &quot;bottom of the barrel choices&quot; due to the constant performance and functionality issues.