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Amen. There were actually three Teams clients at the same time (the Windows 11-bundled Teams "personal version", Teams [for business] and Teams [the new version]). Not to mention they also have Skype for Business (which is actually Lync rebranded, which is Communicator rebranded) which is not interoperable at all with Teams even though it's also an Office 365 conferencing app. And of course, Skype for Business is a completely different code base than Skype. Aaand they had Microsoft Kaizala which was basically the same use case but a completely different and incompatible implementation for countries with bad connectivity.
It's a complete and utter shitshow and I can't fathom why heads aren't rolling at Microsoft. Makes me think of this email from Bill Gates back in the day. If he was CEO now he would be fuming.