Microsoft Teams 4+

Love it! It’s almost perfect, great for reducing emails. But wish we can have an email feature for teams created, because I have some team members who are still very old school, and some messages that are important, I would like to duplicate into email format to Ensure the old-schoolers definitely read those messages. Perhaps an option to duplicate certain messages into Outlook?

The way mic muting works when playing a video in Teams doesn’t make sense to me. Firstly, I can’t mute myself when playing a video which is if I do, that would mute the video sound as well. What’s the point of having a separate switch for computer audio if getting my mic muted would mute computer audio as well? This means that if I play a video from my computer for an hour, I should maintain an absolute silence in my room for the whole hour. Then again, if somebody uses Mute All function, that would mute my computer audio as well and I have to unmute myself before the audience can hear the video sound again.

The other thing is that when I share a specific window (most commonly a PowerPoint presentation), I can see a small Teams window in the bottom right corner on my screen but to everybody else it looks like a grey box unless I roll it down. So, I’m not sharing my screen, I’m sharing a specific window and only that specific window should be seen by the audience and not any other windows. And anyway, what’s the point of having that small Teams window if I have to roll it down in order to remove the grey box on everybody else’s screen?

These are a couple of annoying things that you need to work on to improve the app.

There are a few fundamental problems with this app. Apart from its integration with o365 it’s basically still quite far away, but most of us have no choice but to continue using it anyway.

1) User Interface. There is no value for feed to be the entrance point of an app when I just want to reply to my message. As a chat app, you should be able to launch and immediately reply. Having two distinct groups of chat features in both the teams tab and chats tab is seriously confusing.

2) in the teams tab, the conversations look like newsfeed too. It’s not really a chat box. Many times we try to reply to a thread within a team convo and end up replying as a new post which makes the boxes look really awkward for a real conversation.

3) reactions - so far you only can like and can’t do anything else. Slack has this for all chat posts. This is a good to have but not a must have.

4) there are so many ways to edit a document within teams that is very confusing. In fact share point is better! You have to choose one. Google docs does this very well.

5) no proper Version control in teams wiki. Shouldn’t this be a standard since this is in share point?

I hope someone can help to float this feedback to a PM in Microsoft teams. In anyways feel free to reach out to me and I can give more feedback about this.