@edwintorok

the presenter view often doesn't work (e.g. presenter advances the slide, but nothing happens for those on the call, or inconsistent things happen for those in a faraway geo)

I've been using this feature for six years, with people who were 8 time zones away from me, running Windows, macOS, Linux, or using one of the mobile clients. The only times I've seen the first problem is when people move to the next slide by themselves and then don't press the big red 'sync to presenter' button. I've never had the second.

@david_chisnall thanks, I'll try suggesting they try that button the next time I see this happen for someone, but why doesn't it sync automatically?
I usually present a PDF or HTML from my Mac, so I never experienced the PowerPoint split slides problem as a presenter, just as an audience member (most recently it happened last week I think).

Also I'm not sure what the best way to report this bug would be. With an open source project I'd open an issue directly on their bugtracker, but with this one would probably have to open a ticket with internal IT, have them reproduce it, potentially talk to the vendor on my behalf, etc. So I think most of these bugs go unreported (we just assume that MS would be internally using this and is well aware of these bugs, just had other priorities than fixing them, although that may not be the case).
Other bugs (like room audio not working) do get reported and fixed, because those are very easy to reproduce.

@david_chisnall ah wait, the sync to the presenter is a feature for each client? Guess I will need to look for a button on the in-room touchscreen then. Thanks for the suggestions.

@david_chisnall @edwintorok
When the audience is checking other slides while the presentation is running, I’d say the presenter has already partially lost. This feature is unnecessary at best.

@edwintorok It's a button right next to the buttons you use to move to a different slide.