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  • Microsoft blew $8.5 billion on Skype only to spend 14 years killing it

    I’m a CIO at a large charity and we’ve been using Teams for 5 years and it’s come a long way. Ever since they switched from it being an Electron app to WebView2 its performance and stability issues have disappeared. 

    It’s native integration into Office365, it’s ease of use (I don’t get any support calls), our 500 staff find it way easier and more intuitive to use over Zoom and Slack. Having your calendar, chat, phone (including call centre), video, channels etc in one place and working so well together is great. The edit functionality on Teams alone is the best chat tool we’ve used. 

    Also with Copilot or Teams Pro getting AI summaries and take aways of meetings and being able to query the meeting you missed to ask questions as if you were there is such a huge time saver. 

    Teams has about a 1/3rd market share and Zoom about 50% but Teams has a lot more active daily users. Zoom has a larger “one-off” base for the uninitiated for people outside of corporate environments. 

    Even simple things like numbered hand raises don’t exist in Zoom (so you know the order of who raised it first, second etc).

    I’ve tech supported all my friends with Zoom issues and never with Teams, even with the luddites in our org. 

    Those that haven’t tried Teams in a while can take another look as it’s tech stack has been rebuilt and it has caught up and surpassed Zoom in so many ways and its integration into Office365 and summaries with Copilot, call centre abilities and SSO (single sign on with Office365) put it leaps and bounds over Zoom IMHO. 

    To each their own. 

    I understand and respect other people’s opinions and experiences. What I don’t understand why so many people like to post from a point of view of laced with anger, vitriol and hatred. It makes me wonder what life experiences in general people have to have this bottled up inside them and are challenged to communicate with a lack of emotional self-regulation and balance (as I will likely see demonstrated in replies to this). 

    Why can’t people just share experiences, what works for them without emotional judgements interlaced. Who has hurt you that you feel like you need to hurt everyone else? I don’t know you but if you need a virtual hug, I’m sorry for whomever or whatever life experiences and trauma have made you this way. Be well. 🙏🏻
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  • Mophie Snap+ Wireless Vent Mount review: Good iPhone car charger, but not quite MagSafe

    At one point you indicate the cable is 3m (which is 10ft) and later you say it’s 3ft. Please correct. I’m assuming by the complaint in the article that the cable is short you meant to say that it’s 3ft. 
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  • Apple's Advanced Data Protection feature is here - what you need to know

    Doesn’t work in Canada - says “not currently available in your region”. This is most likely US only and would be a good point to add to the article and any timelines on other country role out (if known)
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