The writing was on the wall for a good few years, but it looks like my workplace is going to eventually say goodbye to #Slack and borg everyone into the parent company's Office365 system including #Teams.
I'm no fan of Slack, actually I hate anything that requires me to run a proprietary client … XMPP and IRC spoiled me I guess. We used to be on Atlassian's Hipchat, which I similarly despised but it did at least understand XMPP … initially that's exactly how I connected to it.
However, Atlassian shut down Hipchat in 2016-17 or so… and the recommended replacement was Slack so over we went.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/895890 suggests Microsoft *did* have a client (Electron-based if I recall correctly) but have since pulled it.
The good news is I've been told that Copilot is disabled for our workplace instance. (Hopefully it stays that way.)
I'd rather not tie up a browser tab just for the sake of a chat client. Does anyone know of a third-party open-source client for Microsoft Teams? Beeper I think was mentioned in relation to Slack … might investigate that… but I'm open to other options too.