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Microsoft Teams App Gains Native Apple Silicon Support
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One of my clients has MSFT 365, but we use Slack for internal chats. We use Teams for internal and external calls/collaboration.
I'll put it this way: Slack plus Zoom is a more compelling experience IMHO than Teams. And Teams' bundling with Outlook probably needs to be investigated from an antitrust perspective.
Teams has additional issues. It’s unresponsive and full of bugs! Some Electron apps don’t have those problems, presumably including Slack.
Out! Proper Office apps are nice. I like them better than on Windows. Teams is not one of them, and it is obvious that it is made by different people.
Among other software vendors (I only know one of the ones you cited) Microsoft is the most fond of making things frustrating and awful. Seriously, everything else is fine. Most importantly, you’re usually not forced to use other companies’ buggy software.
It's ****, honestly. And it doesn't really have to be, it just is. The UI/UX is really, really bad. It looks slick at first glance, but the people who design it seem to know nothing about human-computer interaction. Like, no idea. Missing very key concepts.
For ****'s sake, the About Microsoft Teams menu option under the Microsoft Teams menu doesn't DO anything when you click on it. What the ****.
It's clear that you're not exposed to the software of a famous German software vendor named after the blood of trees...
I have to say, as someone that uses Teams for wok on my mac every day, I’ve not had the buggy issues people are winging about (in fact I’ve had a worse experience on windows - always with test calls).
I found it to be nothing than stable, I use it constantly for chat, video calls, team calls.
I found it to be nothing than stable, I use it constantly for chat, video calls, team calls.
Glad to have the Universal version now--but will never know when an updated version comes out, since the Update function will actually send you back to Intel.
Sure it’s right here: https://slack.com/help/articles/216771908-Make-calls-in-Slack
Calls have video as well.
No, obviously not, but Microsoft had their hands on that DTK Mac Mini thing earlier than that. They are freaking Microsoft; they even have arm-64 machines and Windows builds of their own, they should’ve had their entire app catalog ported to arm-64 macOS from day one!
No, you don't have to download from a link. Just go to the 3 dots, about, then choose developer preview. It'll automatically install it.
Sadly, it seems that the larger the company is, the slower they are to adopt the latest APIs.
For example, google drive took forever to support split-screen multitasking (almost 2 years), while YouTube sure took their own sweet time to support PIP (a third party YouTube client had those features on day 1). Their YouTube music app is similarly a dumpster fire. There is still no iPad Instagram app (and the company neutered the third party apps for those). I am not sure if Twitter even supports proper share sheet extensions (not that I particularly care, since I have been on Tweetbot for years). And remember when Ballmer withheld office from the iPad during his tenure?
I imagine the mentality is that people are going to keep using their apps and services regardless, which makes it a real shame.
So just to be clear, the Teams App is now Apple Silicon native but the Installer used to actually install the app is still requesting Rosetta. So if for some reason you're keen to keep your Apple Silicon Mac running without Rosetta then you can't install this one?
Who packages a native apple silicon app with an intel based installer? Why? Surely there is a very good reason for this? 🤔
Who packages a native apple silicon app with an intel based installer? Why? Surely there is a very good reason for this? 🤔
No, the installer includes an x86 build of the Teams audio driver, which is why the installer requires Rosetta 2 to be installed.
Exactly, according to militarycac.org, the Army has no intentions of support CAC use with the standalone Teams. https://militarycac.org/army365.htm. Per Militarycac.org: