Microsoft Teams | App Report, Store and Ranking Data

I’m not a fan of the latest Office Suite desktop or mobile applications (for full transparency, this maybe because I’m now having to get used to MicrosoftOS at new job after running on MacBooks for most of my career, but I digress). This Teams app is awesome tho on all fronts that I use it on, including Mobile(iOS), MacOS (personal laptop) and Windows OS (work laptop) versions. It’s quick, seamless, secure (SharePoint plugin works well with it), and really brings what I love from both Slack and Zoom into one app. I use it for Internal Comms, team collaboration, and now demos with new Prospects and existing Clients. With Zooms security flaws and tendencies to be “touchy” depending on the day, I’ve grown increasingly sick of the dropped conferences and bad calling or screen share qualities. Teams handles this extremely well. It’s also very clean, very easy to use. I hate giving Microsoft credit, but overall, this is quickly becoming a favorite App of mine. Outlook Calendar connection is awesome feature too. A couple knocks and suggestions: First, the screen share is a bit slow to connect at first. Zoom connects a few seconds faster. This is a small issue, but on a Sales demo, that can be an awkward few moments and can mess up flow of the meeting. Once it’s up, runs great, control panel isn’t in the way (I HATE that with Zoom full screen mode), and is responsive. I’m not sure if it has the Takeover feature like Zoom, where you can give someone else controls to your computer thru screen share, but I’ll look for it. Next, needs more App integrations. Very limited in this area, as most of the Microsoft Exchange Apps are (probably for security reasons). While I’m sure I can chain integrate thru API connectors like Zapier, wish you could do it natively thru the app. Finally, wish it had a true Channel feature like Slack has. You can build out Groups and rename them to build something similar (for sub teams or different depts), but you don’t get the same functionality as a true Channel like you get in Slack. For now, works for my purposes, and I am simply knit-picking at this point. Overall, bravo Microsoft. Best app to date. Now please fix Outlook for exchange, that app is straight garbage and needs some serious love from you guys lol. If you follow what you built here with Teams, you may reconvert this diehard Mac user to WindowsOS for good. Maybe

Teams is a very useful tool to get my work done and communicate with people in your workplace. However teams can be a little frustrating. I use teams for school and when I’m going through assignments I hate just being able to look at one class’s assignments at a time it would be really helpful if I could check more classes at once and not have to wait for it to load another classes assignments since I wake up in the morning scanning all the assignments and sometimes I switch between classes to see which I should do first to manage my time. The teams app is also laggy when ever I go through posts. I think the teams app is great but I don’t think it deserve the five stars although I would put 4.5 if I could but it’s leaning towards 4.

The App has been great thus far but I would like to suggest some improvements that I feel would be helpful. One is an option to view all assignments with an icon or title to say which class it is for. I think this would make the assignments tab feel less cluttered and more user-friendly. Number 2 is a sync that updates your schedule for the teams calendar, office 365 calendar and maybe even the phone calendar as sometimes it confusing to schedule calls when I have to view multiple calendars. Teams has been beneficial during this especially hard time and I thank the developers, these are just my suggestions. Thank you!

Good app under development. Useful so far... Biggest things missed is that only 250 people can join a meeting, sometimes we need interactive participation so this tool is not there yet. Only 4 participants per screen you could see, apps like zoom let you see more. Quality and sound is far better than Skype!...