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Teams alternative?
The Teams community is here:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/ct-p/MicrosoftTeams
just curious, is there any reason not to use the official client?
HotCakeXi dont like microsoft office, mainly it is a resource hog, no customization for the install or the programs, its basically here's what we're doing and that's what you're getting, i have a small tablet/laptop that i love to use but it has a small hard drive and not much ram and it already has windows 10 on it so 50% of the hard drive is full and i usually only have about 500mb of ram that's free at any given time out of 4gigs and on a 13" touch screen most of the tool bars are full of junk that i don't use and now with office 365 don't even get to choose which 1's are shown
- Every program has a set of minimum hardware requirements and recommended hardware requirements, Office is not exempt from this.
It's okay if you love something, but you gotta know that technology doesn't stop progressing. I bought a laptop back in 2009, it was Sony and it had 4GB RAM, now after 11 years it's a potato so I upgraded to something with 16GB RAM.
4GB is really low, even phones have more RAM than that.
if you insist on using your current laptop then your best options are to use Office online and Teams online.HotCakeX it's not old, it's a surface pro 6, so its not old, and its not the technology that i have a problem, i do have my A+ cert, network+ cert, i have an older MOU Cert and kept up on the development has the microsoft office have evolved over the past 20 years, its the office product itself, they mainly aren't reliable anymore, i cant even load the web browser version without getting errors, corel office is so much better, like this web site, i cant even check messages on because microsoft can't even do that right anymore, how can i not have permission to check my own messages, lol and your wondering why i'm looking for something other than teams, its not that looking for something other than teams, i'm looking for something that actually works...
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Mike0973 wrote:HotCakeX it's not old, it's a surface pro 6, so its not old, and its not the technology that i have a problem, i do have my A+ cert, network+ cert, i have an older MOU Cert and kept up on the development has the microsoft office have evolved over the past 20 years, its the office product itself, they mainly aren't reliable anymore, i cant even load the web browser version without getting errors, corel office is so much better, like this web site, i cant even check messages on because microsoft can't even do that right anymore, how can i not have permission to check my own messages, lol and your wondering why i'm looking for something other than teams, its not that looking for something other than teams, i'm looking for something that actually works...
Sorry but are you really looking for a solution/help or just want to mix things up and laugh?
that error message is from the Microsoft Tech Community, you should know it, now that you said you have all those certificates.
also looks like Surface pro has 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and you chose the 4GB version..well..the brand name is not important anymore, the amount of RAM makes it unfit for the modern operations.
my phone has 8GB RAM and it's not even a flag ship, just a mid range phone..Microsoft Office is solid and it works, but if you want to intentionally use low specs hardware with it then you can't blame it for not working properly. I neither work for Microsoft nor Office, only speaking with my common sense and experience.
I can do the same, install 512MB RAM on my system then try to install corel or any 3rd party app that you think works, and then show you that it doesn't work. but would my argument be valid? of course not.
Microsoft Teams has an online version, it works inside browser.