Software Review of Blogger and Microsoft Teams

 Software Review

For my final blog entry I will be reviewing two pieces software that I have used over the past year and detailing the pros and cons of both. As this blog was created on Blogger I find it fitting to review my experience of it. The second software I will be reviewing will be Microsoft Teams Both Blogger and Teams have been very interesting to work with and broadened my mind of the power of free software. Let us begin with Blogger.

Having made blogs before in college modules last year I was not new to the idea of blogging. I used software like Weebly and Wix to create different blogs but my experience was nowhere near as pleasant as it was with Blogger. The interface of Blogger is very accessible and easy to navigate with the tabs on the side. See below for the tab.

Everything you need as a blogger is here with tools like seeing the statistics of your blog to changing the complete layout and theme of your blog. I found the View Blog tool incredibly useful as you can view your blog as if you were a regular viewer making it easy to see it from the viewers perspective. Another advantage of Blogger is that you are given a custom domain by Blogger which has content management systems. Although there are not many negatives to Blogger the only bad side is that you can not install plugins on your blog. Aside from that, Blogger is a great blogging site and I would recommend it to all aspiring bloggers. 

Microsoft Teams is a free to use collaborative software which allows users to create teams or groups for users to interact. It also allows one to one chats and calls which is very useful for businesses and college students working on projects. Meetings can be held with up to 250 users in one session which again would massively benefit businesses. Much like Blogger, Microsoft Teams has a great navigation bar which has most of the tools you will need when using the software. See below for the bar.

Here you can see everything you need from your Teams to private chats. Microsoft Teams has been incredibly useful for me due to the ability to create a group and share content to different people. The only negative to using Microsoft Teams is that you cannot duplicate a Team. In other words if you would like to set up a new Team you would need to create it from scratch instead of just replicating the old one and working from there. All in all I would still highly recommend the use of Microsoft Teams to anyone who is looking for a collaborative software for work or educational purposes.