# Microsoft Teams 228 Hacker News commenters recommended Microsoft Teams and 701 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 13 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 1.5 years (11 owners). **Verdict:** Recommended mainly because it comes with Microsoft 365 and integrates with Office, SharePoint and Outlook, with decent video calls; many find it heavy, buggy and confusing for chat. ## Why people recommend it - Integrates with Office and SharePoint (4 comments): "Teams has the clear lower barrier to entry, let alone document sharing that's integrated into Word and Excel via SharePoint." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138685)) "using M365 connected tools - Outlook,claendar, teams, sharepoint, copilot etc just work very well together for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47505114)) "Their Power suite, Teams and the existing integrations make it cost effective even with the increases." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192462)) - Video calls work well enough (5 comments): "I ran Teams calls in Firefox on Linux for years, it worked as well as Zoom, I'd say. Other integrations, like the online office files had some issues." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46678046)) "it very much easier to roll out Teams than anything else. It works fine at the kind of internal video calls" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218204)) "I used Teams since released, never have those problems unless on a bad network. Use it several hours a day." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45939578)) - Web client works on Linux (3 comments): "I ran Teams calls in Firefox on Linux for years, it worked as well as Zoom, I'd say. Other integrations, like the online office files had some issues." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46678046)) "I use screen sharing from the official web client in Firefox on both Debian and Fedora without any issues." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45933713)) "everything else is web-based/has a PWA (like Teams, Outlook, Office etc), which works fine in Linux" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46982398)) - Easy to roll out in enterprises (4 comments): "MS Teams might have its issues but it has most, if not all, of the Enterprise features you need from a video conferencing suite." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46500934)) "Teams has the clear lower barrier to entry, let alone document sharing that's integrated into Word and Excel via SharePoint." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50138685)) "it very much easier to roll out Teams than anything else. It works fine at the kind of internal video calls" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218204)) ## What people warn about - Resource hog and slow (4 comments): "It is a resource hog, handles navigation poorly, has poor default settings, finding installed apps can be tough" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825535)) "If we can take a computer as powerful as today's laptops and make it crawl because of the amount of inefficiencies in software like Teams" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962844)) "Outlook, Teams, and other all show up as msedgewebview2.exe, so you also don't know which app is consuming gigs of memory doing nothing." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648370)) - Confusing navigation and notifications (5 comments): "It’s a pain when multitasking (text chat with another group then try to find your wayback to the existing video conference)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45933956)) "It is a resource hog, handles navigation poorly, has poor default settings, finding installed apps can be tough" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825535)) "The number of times I've heard the notification sound, gotten a toast while in the middle of something, and then been unable to find what the hell that notification was for" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46877877)) - Poor text chat experience (3 comments): "As a piece of software for voice chats it's okay but as piece of software for text chats it is absolutely atrocious" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025647)) "Teams suffers from one giant problem. There is a totally odd, but understandable from tech debt perspective, segregation between “chats” and “teams”" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47018615)) "my coworkers are always complaining about how much trouble they have with it, not being able to copy and paste into chats, freezes, crashes" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50136998)) - Audio, mic and join problems (3 comments): "it always stayed at 100% CPU" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935950)) "where after a network interruption the audio is sometimes played back really fast until the point that it becomes real-time again" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077087)) "They do still have MS Teams calls where the first 20 minutes are trying to fix half the people having issues joining or hearing things." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48099115)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Slack](https://hackerapproved.com/p/slack.md): 248 recommend - [Zulip](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zulip.md): 143 recommend - [Chatto](https://hackerapproved.com/p/chatto.md): 55 recommend - [Mattermost](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mattermost.md): 40 recommend - [Fluxer](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fluxer.md): 22 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Microsoft Teams", https://hackerapproved.com/p/microsoft-teams/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).