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's <i>telling</i> that Microsoft has to require folks to use Teams.<p>I'm sure this is just Microsoft unifying everyone on the same comms platform, but seriously, I don'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's free, but there's a difference between "I chose an email/identity platform that I know and I guess I'll use its chat app too" and "I evaluated team chat offerings and Teams is our top pick."<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'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'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 "for the sole purpose of video conferencing" which lines up with my use case, but still -- of all the video apps I put Teams down with Webex as "bottom of the barrel choices" due to the constant performance and functionality issues.