nir Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 Learn to love the browser instead Microsoft loves Linux. Unless you are a Linux user who happens to want to use Teams. In that case, you probably aren’t feeling the love quite so much. Users of that other collaboration platform, Slack, have enjoyed a Linux client for some time. Teams users, on the other hand, have had to make do with a browser experience that is often less than ideal. Hence the fifth most requested Teams feature in Microsoft’s UserVoice forum is a Linux client. The request was made nearly two years ago and, at time of writing, has attracted 5,376 votes and 37 pages of comments. Yesterday, however, Linux users hoping to become first class citizens were dealt a cruel blow. A Microsoft representative has admitted that no, there is no dedicated engineering resource working on a Linux client. The omission is an odd one. Microsoft has a Skype client for Linux, so a similar client for Teams should not be beyond the imagination of the Windows giant. Particularly given its much-publicised love for the Linux platform. Using Teams through a browser on Linux is a limiting experience. Video conferencing, calling and desktop sharing are problematic, if not impossible. In the current documentation for Teams, Microsoft states that Meetings is supported on Chrome 59 or later, but Firefox users are out of luck for Calling or Meetings and should download a desktop client. Oh, or use Edge. Neither of the latter two options are really viable for Linux users. One enterprising Teams enthusiast has published a method of coaxing video calls and presentations into life on Linux via Chrome or Chromium, but the process is a little convoluted and effectively has the browser pretend it is actually Edge in order to prevent Teams from ignoring it. It is all rather unsatisfactory, and we’ve contacted Microsoft to get more detail on its decision. Linux has a vanishingly small share of the desktop market compared to Windows. However, this has not stopped Microsoft releasing developer tools such as Visual Studio Code on the platform. In the light of that, it seems an odd call to exclude those same developers from the full fat version of Redmond’s collaboration vision. ® Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 1 hour ago, nir said: Linux has a vanishingly small share of the desktop market compared to Windows. However, this has not stopped Microsoft releasing developer tools such as Visual Studio Code on the platform. In the light of that, it seems an odd call to exclude those same developers from the full fat version of Redmond’s collaboration vision. Linux has a higher Markertshare than Chrome OS and its never has vanished its growing , but Microsoft love for Linux has nothing to do with desktop it has to with Linux in the cloud more people use Linux on Microsoft azure than anything else. Linux leads in all other platforms expect for desktop . Google uses Linux it powers Android , Microsoft loves Linux because it powers there cloud. Linu Linux on mobile has has 40.85 % of the marketshare and gained marketshare in the last 12 months Windows on Desktop has 36.23 % of the marketshare and lost marketshare in the last 12 months IOS on mobile has lower marketshare than they do it a gained little Mac OS for desktop has even less and gained a little Linux for Dekstop has even less and and gained a little. Only thing that is losing marketshare is Windows http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share The problem is the desktop market is shrinking and the others are not growing fast enough to make up for the lost. Linux has already won because no Big Tech company puts all there eggs in one basket no more, its not the 1990s anymore and Microsoft is no longer the Windows company since they got Satya Nadella as CEO... Linux is in everything and succeeds in everything but desktop, nether do Apple or Google succeed in making a desktop OS but there is some of Googles services and apps that do and really they dont care because there is no money to be made anymore in that felid that they dont already get . Apple abandon all its projects on Windows expect for Itunes even. and Windows only succeeds on desktop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 I think you be better off to use ScudCloud for Slack than Microsoft Teams if you use Linux anyways. Slack has a native app for Linux as well , but ScudCloud has more features than Slack and uses Slack and can you do more teams +1 ScudCloud is open source. Slack gets a higher ratting than Microsoft do anyway https://www.g2crowd.com/products/microsoft-teams/competitors/alternatives https://github.com/raelgc/scudcloud If you want to use M$ teams use windows Quote Tamaros 89 points 19 hours ago* As a Microsoft employee forced to use Teams, why would you want it? I guess. We have too many in-house tools that are required to do daily work that would never run on Linux. My opinion on Teams is based on the fact that as crap as Skype for Business is, Teams is nowhere close to parity. Behind every Microsoft dumpster fire is a satisfied PM who thinks he just did something grand. This guy works for M$ and uses Linux and is forced to use it at work says it ! Quote Mordiken 3 points 8 hours ago Quote as crap as Skype for Business is, Teams is nowhere close to parity. Oh boy... this truly isn't Balmer's MS anymore! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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