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Fuck everything about Microsoft products. The different licenses are a nightmare, the programs are shit, and "FUCK YOU FOR TRYING TO INSTALL A PROGRAM OR USE LOCAL STORAGE" seems to be the default.
Also I don't trust them not to be spying on users. But sure, every government job I've had we used the products.
and every fucking company is using it. I don't even wanna know how much money my company is paying for all the MS crap we use.
Microsoft Teams isn’t all bad! For example, it bogged down my work computer so much at start up that I would basically get an extra break.
fuxk yea I get like an extra 30 mins a day at leastttt
It literally doesn't even function half the time.
That's not all, a ton of schools use it
I think I don't like that Microsoft has access to stored chat messages between kids.
Who told you to tell the truth?
You had no right!
Is there a Microsoft product that isn't?
To be fair, Teams is pretty bad even for MS. I've never seen something do so relatively little and still perform so poorly. When I switched jobs and got to use Slack it was like a great fog being lifted off of my being.
Sadly I had to go the other way, from Slack to Teams. Oh the horror!!
For your sacrifices, I salute you
VS Code. That's it though.
Ah yes, you're right.
I guess a better qualifier might be: closed-source Microsoft products tend overwhelmingly to suck.
well, it's not just Teams and not just MS. Have you worked with Zoom lately? I do agree that Teams occupies that very special dark space in my heart right next to hate and loathing.
Zoom works for video. I test it a few times a week for a few hours with a few contacts each time.
And a few beer.
It's a vPub most of the time with some tech thrown in.
I hate to say it, but FB Messenger is reliable for me too : starts well, sounds good, video's clean, ends cleanly . I need to remind mom how to start that call when it's with her on her old portal unit, but yeah. Cambridge is the worst thing to happen to good products like M and Portal.
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365 is just shiiiit. Even Google's stuff (free) is far better and less intrusive/annoying.
Have to use it at work, it is a real nightmare.
I think that’s a bit insensitive to dogs
What's bad about it? I'm a Linux admin by nature but an admin of all by profession and overall I have no real complaints about Teams. Has always worked just fine for me and to my knowledge everyone else.
Agreed. It feels a bit janky here and there but otherwise works ok.
But don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t say I like it.
It's missing basic features. The stuff that any normal human would assume it can do it just can't do. It's absolutely terrible if you use it in a large organization where you have to speak to multiple different people.
For one-on-one conversations I guess it's okay but the moment you try and get anything more complicated than that going on it becomes a nightmare.
You know what, I forgot about the actual Teams section which is a disaster. I use it in a corpo but only actually use the IM and calls part.
What basic features?
I haven’t used competing apps to know, but as a forced teams user it is very sluggish, seems to break other ms apps half the time and has some strange and persistent design choices that irk me. It also crashes on its own, when I’m not using it 2-3 times a day.
It has improved in terms of features lately, but still feels very bloated and WIP most of the time. It still won’t let me control where video windows are, and I’ll never understand this.
This is our replacement for Skype, which was obviously feature deficient and getting old, but does what it’s supposed to do and doesn’t cause problems.
Not sure if there’s a good competing app in terms of video and slack functionality, integration into outlook and onedrive (both of which also annoy me and seem to be performing worse-over-time, but are unavoidable and sometimes useful.)
Slow, buggy, annoying interface, hogs extreme amounts of resources locally, can be used to spy on its users.
What's not to like? It's basically how Elon envisions X, an "everything app" that is actually good at nothing specific.
Microsoft ~~Teams~~ is dog shit
FTFY
While I have close to zero trust in MSFT and event much dislike a lot of m365, teams isn’t actually that bad and loop is really good.
