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The Office 365 Groups Disconnect
It seems rather wierd to me a framework aimed to bridge the gap between s aset of tools has somewhat single handidly introduced it very own grand canyon with no way to cross. This canyon to me sits ...
While I follow your point, can you imagine what the solution would really look like ? Imagine a fully fledged email arriving as a message in Teams, how would replying to that work ? If you were subscribed to an outlook group would you get every chat message in your email ?
On a mobile phone you don't normally see this as too much of an issue, Facebook, Messenger, Twitter, Email, WhatsApp, Instagram, SnapChat, LinkedIn, Pintrest all service different purposes, but as they notify me, show message counts etc I don't really care that they are different. I *think* that's Microsoft model, all tools in their native and optimised form keeping you notified through a common interface. I guess what I don't understand is why Outlook, Teams, Skype create their own notifications rather than use the one built into Windows 10.
In general I tell my users to discuss as a team and select the tools that suit them best, generally it seems that most end up using 2 of the 3, rather than all tools. We also encourage them to try and be prepared to change if it's not ideal.
On a mobile phone you don't normally see this as too much of an issue, Facebook, Messenger, Twitter, Email, WhatsApp, Instagram, SnapChat, LinkedIn, Pintrest all service different purposes, but as they notify me, show message counts etc I don't really care that they are different. I *think* that's Microsoft model, all tools in their native and optimised form keeping you notified through a common interface. I guess what I don't understand is why Outlook, Teams, Skype create their own notifications rather than use the one built into Windows 10.
In general I tell my users to discuss as a team and select the tools that suit them best, generally it seems that most end up using 2 of the 3, rather than all tools. We also encourage them to try and be prepared to change if it's not ideal.