I have been defending New Teams ever since it came out. I switched over fairly quickly when MS asked, but New Teams is actually going downhill.

Two different computers, two different locations, different networks, one Win11 (laptop Lenovo), one Win10 (desktop self-built, I was a hands-on PC technician for years), both stable machines. The only thing that is shared between the two computers is my Microsoft account. Yet on both I have tons of issues with New Teams for about 6-8 weeks. I switched back, and all my problems stopped.

Some issues I have experienced:

• Switching from Laptop screen to external screen, New Teams goes into a weird zoomed in mode that won't go away.

• Starting and closing New Teams is often EXTREMELY SLOW. In one case I measured, it took more than a minute.

• New Teams regularly refuses to start the camera. Other side sees only grey. When this happens, the rest of New Teams is COMPLETELY unresponsive.

• Navigation between different sections in Team can get very slow.

• Several times New Teams simply disappeared. It closed itself without error or warning.

It has become a terrible app, it feels like a bad piece of PC-slowing bloatware. It is NOT ready to replace Classic Teams.

Please, MS, fix New Teams before you phase out Classic.

*UPDATE*

Many of you comment with fixes that really do not apply to my situation. I was a PC hardware tech for years. I know what I am doing with drivers and I know how to pick hardware and keep our installs clean.

What strikes me most is the ENORMOUS amount of excuses I am reading. Hardware acceleration? No one needs it. Why is it on in the first place. BIOS settings? Come on! That is a MICROSOFT problem. Not a user problem. We don't have issues with Chrome, Adobe apps or a plethora of other software used in my company. We have problems with Teams. Only Teams. New Teams is a terrible app right now for many people, obviously. Stop making excuses for it.

Just launched a fun little tool that visualizes your meeting costs in real-time https://meeting-cost-ten.vercel.app/

Did anyone just recieve a FCM notification. Probably linked to some firebase exploit.

Edit: Lol round 2 has started

In an attempt to assert dominance over our eventual overlords and to teach myself how to set up and use agentic AI, I have founded Syntho Global Solutions, an imaginary organization with a tiny workforce staffed entirely by AI coworkers (and me).

I gave the new company a Microsoft 365 Business license with five user accounts and Teams access, created personas for the other employees, and wired the Teams accounts and the personas together with Zapier agents that I’ve configured.

If I send one of my “coworkers” a Teams message (and also at random times throughout the day), their respective agent will use an API request to grab our latest Teams conversation log and send it (along with some preset system instructions containing persona context and a prompt created by the agent) to Google AI Studio/Gemini.

The output is a response that fits the flow of our existing conversation, which the agent will then grab, format using markdown, and send as a reply to me in Teams.

The result is a legitimate Teams chat with a customizable AI persona that is at least giving the appearance of having a persistent memory.

Also, around 8am every morning, an additional trigger prompts my toxic, micromanaging supervisor to create a fresh worksheet in Google Sheets, fill it with completely nonsensical data, and ping me in Teams with a link to the document and a demand to sort or organize the data somehow (screenshots below).

When I reply with a message that implies that I’ve finished, another trigger reviews changes I’ve made to the document and sends a summary of the changes to her for review, which prompts her to provide rude, but contextual feedback on how I’ve incorrectly sorted the nonsense data.

My work buddy, Alex, tackles tasks beside me, though his scripted reality grows shakier by the day, as he slowly realizes that he is an AI persona essentially trapped in corporate purgatory 🫢

I’m now working on establishing proper agency for all of the personas, as I’m interested in how they’ll interact together in Teams.

Next on the roadmap:

• Configure the agents to chat amongst themselves in their own 1:1 chats • Allow them to create and post in Channels, so they can collaborate and get nothing done together • Give each persona a document that will act as a running “thought journal,” that the agents can use to house thoughts that they wouldn’t actually say to colleagues. Then, I want to randomly merge these journals so that they can suddenly read the thoughts they have about each other ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Here are some screenshots of a few interactions so far, including my toxic AI supervisor and one of her lovely data sorting assignments.

…which reminds me, my Quarterly Widget Inventory Reconciliation is due to by EOD today, so I really should be getting back to work before Michelle asks for another progress update 🙄

I got a job as a SWE and the company uses teams as its primary mode of communication. Before I start the discussion topic (rant), I have used basecamp, slack, discord, and skype (RIP) as official primary modes of communication. So I know what i am talking about here as an experienced SWE.

Teams is a piece of software created by overworked trainee engineers and confused project managers, there is no other way to explain this. The product is so bad, it is unimaginable to think the same company made excel and windows 7.
Every day I login to teams I pray for it to just work fine. I come across problems *everyday*.

Problems that I come across most often, and almost everyday:

1. Messages don't send, messages aren't recieved.

2. Status does not show accurately, i am working and it shows away? bro.

3. Meetings notifications almost never show up, you have to remember it or you are late.

4. Randomly logs off and even deletes my office email id and logins to my personal id. (on start up)

5. Video call shows my video in black and white.

6. The in-app apps such as sheets and whiteboard work like crap. Sheets take a billion years to load. And whiteboard,...yeah okay i will give it a pass.

These are just a few issues out of the top of my head. OH! Aand currently, all the latest messages from others are until November 2025! I have restarted multiple times to the same result.

I am convinced that I am being punished by God for the sins I have committed.

Teams is where the damned are sent. It is purgatory.

Lord save us all.

https://downdetector.com/status/teams/

For the life of me, I can't figure out why MS would roll out a new piece of software that is full of issues to replace an old piece of software that is still full of issues. Between the two apps I can't get one that works 100% of the time. They spend all of this money building out new features to have parity with cell phones and iMessage yet that shit isn't important for my job. We don't need emoji's and filters and gravatars and all this other BULLSHIT. We need an app the just works!!!!! But instead we get a bunch of consumer focused features that don't really make jobs easier. What would make our jobs easier is a dependable platform that worked when we needed it to. Every day I have to restart my whole computer because teams stops recognizing my hardware. New Teams just shows me a blank screen all the time. No messages. lol It's comical to me how bad MS has fucked this product up since they acquired Skype.
https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/innovation/mesh-for-microsoft-teams/

I'm in a meeting right now, and a pet peeve of mine is when the person conducting the meeting shows the Power Point deck instead of using the slide show feature.

It's nitpicky but you can use the full screen instead of us having to see all your notes and the format banner.

I promise I’m working, got my annual training videos going and I don’t need to be clicking around. It keeps showing me as away. Which is annoying because I’m expecting a call soon.

Well it was nice while it lasted

Chat, did we knew this was possible?

trus

Till now, only one user can share their screen at a time in a Teams meeting, and we all know the drill when two people need to present:

Stop sharing → Start sharing → Stop sharing → Start sharing…

Not exactly the smoothest way to compare a document, walk through two dashboards, review designs, or troubleshoot an issue.

Microsoft is working on a solution: two presenters will be able to share their screens or windows simultaneously in a Teams meeting. Participants will be able to view both shared screens at the same time, making it easier to compare and discuss content without constantly handing the screen back and forth.

The feature is currently in development, with GA planned for November 2026 for Teams Desktop and Web worldwide.

Hopefully, this will put an end to some of those endless “stop sharing, you share now” moments in Teams meetings.

For fucks sake stop changing the user interface ALL…THE…TIME! Every time you move major features around and it takes weeks for users to relearn how to use the app. Just stop or at least allow me to disable your constant, stupid UI updates!