Beats WebEx. I contracted at Cisco after they had bought WebEx and the dev teams had to stagger their scrums in the morning because WebEx infra couldn't support all the meetings at once.

[–] ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Beats Skype for Business too, which was Microsoft's previous offering. And it was BAD.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

What? Skype was waay better than Teams! It only started turning into dogshit when Microsoft acquired it.

**Edit: Skype, not "Skype For Business", as others pointed out.

[–] frazorth@feddit.uk 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Skype for Business was not Skype. It was the rebranded Office Communicator, which Microsoft started calling Skype for Business after acquiring Skype.

It was basically a bad clone of MSN Messenger.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yep, you're right. I remember now.

[–] frazorth@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago

No problem, I'm not surprised that you blocked that train wreck from your memory.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

It only started turning into dogshit when Microsoft acquired it.

You mean in 2011?

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Skype was only good for its time.

Compared to Teams now, it is sorely lacking

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago

Imagine if it had actively been developed this whole time rather than snatched up and shuttered to further anti-competitive practices...

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Actually we just finished our switch from Skype to Teams and honestly, as much as I love having GIFs to express my disdain for work, at least Skype could group chats, didn't require all the RAM in the world, and automatically saved chats which, in a records management hellscape was an absolute lifesaver. Also my headphones would automatically answer a call when I put them on my head but I have a feeling that has more to do with the settings than anything else.

Also I'm tired of having to tell people "no we can't do that because Microsoft hasn't integrated that very valuable and highly requested feature you're asking for"

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 17 points 4 months ago

Oh hell yeah, Teams is far from perfect, but it is still light years ahead of webex