I worked on a large(ish) contract (tens of millions) with one of Microsoft’s engineering teams where they were implementing an Azure managed version of software we produced. I would regularly refuse to install teams at the meetings, using teams in-browser only.

It also ensured that the technical project manager had to be the one to transcribe anything in our notes into whatever tools Microsoft was using.

While it was never said, the Microsoft engineers seemed to completely understand and never pushed back against my refusal to a) install crapware and b) not take on work that wasn’t mine.

Not using teams: win win.

I would regularly refuse to install teams at the meetings, using teams in-browser only. I tried to do this for a safety meeting, Teams is also broken in browsers. I’m not sure if intentional or incompetence.

Teams in browser is the only way that I use it either, and it isn’t “broken” like it used to be, but you need to use a Chromium based browser. This is typical Microsoft bullshit with only truly supporting “their”, luckily they don’t actually make an actual browser anymore so you can use any of the better Chromium browsers.

I surprisingly haven’t had any issues using Teams on Firefox but maybe I’m just lucky…? Been using it for months now after uninstalling the app.

I had nothing BUT problems with it, but I haven’t tried it in about six months as I started using Teams it in a chromium based browser. I only need to use Teams when working with strictly MS focused companies (i.e. not ours), so it isn’t a daily hassle anyway.