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Microsoft Teams App Gains Native Apple Silicon Support
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Some companies move to Teams away from Slack because of the costs of Slack vs Teams when you already have Microsoft 365 licenses for your staff.
Here's the link for the Public Preview for the 1.5.21565 version.
It's a late move but thank god... It's on public preview now and the release will follow in september.
However the full replatforming out of electron is still not happening anytime soon...
However the full replatforming out of electron is still not happening anytime soon...
Only after WebView comes out on the Mac later this fallIt's a late move but thank god... It's on public preview now and the release will follow in september.
However the full replatforming out of electron is still not happening anytime soon...
Here's the link for the Public Preview for the 1.5.21565 version.
I installed and tested it. It runs as "Apple" in ActivityMonitor but still feels bad like before. Even the simplest functions are buggy: Look at the "About" info. Instead of a date for the last update it says "Last updated on not available".
I changed the ringtone (I really *HATE!!!* the default bong bong bing ... bong bong bing -- it is so badly designed!) but Teams forgot my setting.
Glad that my company uses Zoom as a standard. But some customers have Teams.
I changed the ringtone (I really *HATE!!!* the default bong bong bing ... bong bong bing -- it is so badly designed!) but Teams forgot my setting.
Glad that my company uses Zoom as a standard. But some customers have Teams.
Same here. We had GotoMeeting before, and also Webex. I just had a ticket opened with Microsoft for an intermittent issue where video doesn't show for every participant in a meeting. The workaround is to leave the meeting and re-join. Microsoft support is unable to help because I can't provide a reproduction scenario. This issue isn't new, and many are complaining about it online. Yet, Microsoft is unable or unwilling to even diagnose the issue. Oh, I would like to go back to GotoMeeting, WebEx, or move to Slack which is even better.
As if people working for major companies decide what software is being used by said company or the partners they're working with.
Oh yeah that is a big pain. Why are there 3 places to look: chat, team, and activity? Sometimes a chat appears under activity and sometimes it doesn't and then I have to go hunt under chat.
My company is using teams for videoconferencing only, chat, channels and collaboration is done through slack
yup, same here, I hate teams with a passion but now I'm stuck with it. I miss slack
Sure, but at least with slack I feel like it's worth it. Also it doesnt crash or just randomly lose its connection the way teams does so often
Regardless of how good another product works, most organizations will go the route of what's already paid for. I worked w/ devs and infrastructure groups, and the devs loved Slack and the infrastructure people couldn't have cared less, and since we already had M365, the devs lost.
The edict from above was unless you can show us tangible evidence, quickly and easily that Slack makes you more productive and it pays for itself, then we're going to use Teams. Needless to say, all are on Teams at this point.
The edict from above was unless you can show us tangible evidence, quickly and easily that Slack makes you more productive and it pays for itself, then we're going to use Teams. Needless to say, all are on Teams at this point.
At least in the US HIPAA/FedRAMP/Financial auditing/etc depending on what part of the field also plays in, you have to pay more for higher tier versions of slack for the extra logging and audit functions for slack, if the company already has all the MS services it's cheaper than slack and integrates better into the IT/Security workflow.
I tried to push back on the slack migration, I'm visible *enough* in the company to be able to bring it up at a high level, and got shot down because IT/Security just refused flat out to pay for and implement the controls on Slack once teams was available.
Slack video conferencing is also a stuttery, buggy mess, so companies are usually looking for an alternative anyways.
Ah, that's what I did and that must have been the difference. I def remember checking that. So that's why we are fully AS maybe and others aren't. Nice find.
I downloaded from a Microsoft site from a "Download Microsoft Teams" search.
Installed fine, and showed up as Universal. I then foolishly tried "Check for Updates" within the app, and it returned me to the Intel version!
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Installed fine, and showed up as Universal. I then foolishly tried "Check for Updates" within the app, and it returned me to the Intel version!
That's weird, I don't have Developer preview under About. I'm on 20352 manually downloaded from the GitHub page and when I check for updates, I don't get updated to 20858 or 21565.
Your Teams admins can block access to betas and previews, so that's probably why you aren't seeing the developer preview option.
Interesting. I don’t use Teams but I think our corporate and support folks use it.
We also use and, I’m pretty sure, pay a lot for Slack. I don’t know why those others would use Teams. I’ve had to log in a couple time to communicate with support and I didn’t care for it.
But at least Slack allows you to draw on other people’s shared screen. Unlike Teams which makes it very hard to “point” to a location in a remote screen.