It’s certainly not wrong to take a look into Microsoft and its subscription business, but I don’t see much success in pressing this particular point: Not only was there always some sort of free version of Teams since 2018, but since 2022 there has been a Teams Essentials subscription, a version that doesn’t bundle O356.
If anything I’d like some compensation for the loss in sanity you get trying to understand the dozen different subscriptions and (incompatible) versions of Teams, all of which are confusingly named.
If anything I’d like some compensation for the loss in sanity you get trying to understand the dozen different subscriptions and (incompatible) versions of Teams, all of which are confusingly named.
I don’t see what’s so confusing? There are 3 tiers for business and 3 for home:
There’s also the hidden Teams (Free) tier for business, not to be confused with the now discontinued Teams Free (classic), all of which are not the same as Teams (free) for personal use, or the Teams Exploratory license, which acts as a kind of trial for new users. Bonus points for knowing which of these versions can be upgraded into another.
Also try to explain to people with a straight face that they can’t actually Win11 built-in Teams integration because it isn’t compatible with business versions ofo Teams tand that they need to be careful which version they start from the start menu.
It’s certainly not wrong to take a look into Microsoft and its subscription business, but I don’t see much success in pressing this particular point: Not only was there always some sort of free version of Teams since 2018, but since 2022 there has been a Teams Essentials subscription, a version that doesn’t bundle O356.
If anything I’d like some compensation for the loss in sanity you get trying to understand the dozen different subscriptions and (incompatible) versions of Teams, all of which are confusingly named.
I don’t see what’s so confusing? There are 3 tiers for business and 3 for home:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/compare-microsoft-teams-options
Couldn’t really be much simpler tbh.
There’s also the hidden Teams (Free) tier for business, not to be confused with the now discontinued Teams Free (classic), all of which are not the same as Teams (free) for personal use, or the Teams Exploratory license, which acts as a kind of trial for new users. Bonus points for knowing which of these versions can be upgraded into another.
Also try to explain to people with a straight face that they can’t actually Win11 built-in Teams integration because it isn’t compatible with business versions ofo Teams tand that they need to be careful which version they start from the start menu.