I have been using Microsoft Teams since I started a new job on 10 January 2022. I am super impressed with the App. Everything I can do on my desktop computer screen, I can do on the App, if I am out and about. One of my favourite features is, if I am running to answer a call, I can just grab my phone and answer, then I unlock my desktop computer while I am chatting, and seamlessly transfer the call to my desktop computer screen! I am super impressed. Everything just works! Well done developers and keep up the good work.

this software is sending your data to Microsoft first where their AI extracts your details from your allegedly personal and private conversations, before passing it on. The fact that Apple would even allow this app on their store shows that you simply can't trust Apple anymore either. Only use this if you want to help Microsoft train your replacement. There are much, much better comms apps out there. Ones that respect privacy and who's interfaces aren't so messy that it takes very little time for your communications to just be an unorganised mess. That's Teams. A messy, buggy app that syphons your private data to a company who though worth billions, won't even respect you enough to pay you to train their AI and instead steals your data. If you trust this app you don't care about yourself or your species. It is that simple. Unlike this app. Microsoft seems to pride itself on stuffing as much into this app as possible... i.e. claiming its the only app to do chat, communities etc in the same app (another lie from Liecrosoft, I can think of three that do all of the above, but just like this implementation they are also complete messes, terrible for locating info and terrible for quick comms with friends. This is a business app... it is NOT a replacement for Skype... this is a replacement for any mess you'd managed to remove from your life. And the majority if reviews claiming otherwise are literally posted by Microsoft staff! They've been caught out doing it on multiple occasion's. DO NOT TRUST THIS APP. They have to lie to get you to use it.

The reasons why I give this app a four star rating is because I find this app very easy to access all my school work, it is very useful and it saves all my work, I like how the calls are set up whenever we have a class call for lockdown. But a reason why I gave this a four not a five is because of the muting system, yes it’s good for teachers so there students don’t say whatever they want, but if I want to communicate with my teacher/class to get help on some work, I can’t get any help, the muting system has its goods and bads, but I’d really it rather not be there, I understand that it is there for a good reason, but I can’t communicate with my class members about work if it’s muted as it’s a lot faster than emailing or calling.

The Do Not Disturb function deactivates itself, apparently as it pleases, and users start getting disturbed by notifications again. (I’ve just had a sick colleague woken by work chat, despite having activated “Do Not Disturb”. I’ve experienced the same in the recent past, myself.)I used Slack previously, and when I was off work, I could tell the App to snooze notifications until the next day. And it did.I could also tell the Slack App to snooze notifications for 20mins, an hour, four hours. This was great, if I was about to drive home, and my colleagues were about to start a long discussion. Far safer driving if I’m not having my phone buzzing away beside me.So, the biggest improvement I need from this app is Notification Snoozing that works. Having to disable and re-enable notifications for the App in iOS settings is inelegant. (Slack’s being able to advise people that you had Notifications disabled when they were trying to message you is really smart, too.)

Lacks the features of Skype for business and behind competition, needs far better PSTN and PABX facilities especially for medium to large enterprises. No SMS, no shared voicemails boxes, expensive license combinations and call plans, with no international call plan in Oz. Telstra take 45+business days to add an extra user PSTN number. Can’t administratively change users personal greetings via powershell, needs Exchange plan 2 for voice mail despite fact exchange online no longer used (now Azure Voicemail). Needs a call plan to be able to personal voicemail greeting even if you don’t want a PSTN number and just want to have voicemail for internal or Teams to Teams calls. Very delayed call answering, like swipe to answer and wait 3-5 seconds for other party to hear you answer the call and actually begin a conversation.

Issue 1) reacting to a post or comment causes the app to freeze. You have to restart the app to get it working againIssue 2) push notifications don't get batched or grouped together when part of a channel or group chat. It results in a very loud experience when you're not active in the app. Whilst this is probably good in some aspects, it would be great if you had more granular controls around notifications being sent for a channel/group chat.