feature requestProductivity · Collaboration & MessagingsituationalSAASB2BUX

Microsoft Teams requires a secondary app to launch

A user complains that Microsoft Teams now requires a second companion app just to open, adding unwanted bloat. This is a vendor-specific UX grievance about Teams' install architecture. No actionable software market gap exists outside Microsoft fixing it.

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