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That’s all.

EDIT: Thank you all for detailing your experience with, and hatred for, this miserable product. Your display of solidarity is inspiring. Now, say it with me:

Fuck Microsoft

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

that is because theyre selling it to the business, not the end user. They dont give 2 fucks about your experience

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (7 children)

The fact that me and a coworker can't both share our screens at the same time is absolutely batshit. 1x1 collaboration isn't even reasonable, nevermind anything more

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes. Why the fuck doesn’t Teams have this capability??

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (7 children)

"Your organization has blocked this action"

I mean this is my work phone, and I'm trying to copy a customer's phone number from a spreadsheet to the dialer, but thanks man.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Not that I’m actually trying to defend MS/Teams (seriously, fuck ‘em both); but this is more due to IT Admin settings.

We have similar in our company, that’s in place because we handle PIR data regularly and it’s meant to be a speed bump rather than full roadblock.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

It sucks, it doesn't work properly in Firefox, so I have keep it open in a Chromium window too. This morning I saw new messages in my Chromium but not in Firefox until I reloaded the page. I wonder what other information it's keeping from me.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Unfortunately, much better than Skype

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I miss that ringtone though.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

The "boop beeep boop... Beee-ooop beep" one?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Skype was a steaming pile for sure, but it had the ability to search for and message a distribution group and get an answer from whomever was available and I could pin it for future use. Now I have to know every name in a group and message them individually until I find someone to help or start a meeting to get everyone at once. It may just be how our Teams instance is configured, but I miss that feature. And who decided there should be a limit on how many people I can pin in Teams?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s possible to be worse?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Oh fuck yeah. Skype used to throw errors when the advertisements scripts didn't run correctly. I remember getting dozens of pop ups when the ad changed to something new. To my knowledge, they haven't put ads in Teams, yet. They first need to kill the competition a bit; really set the hook before they reel you in.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I keep a Teams tab and an Outlook tab opened in Firefox on Linux at work, and I feel like I have a better experience than most people using it on windows, which seems crazy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Does your voice calling work ok in Firefox? My video calls start off ok but always seem to drop out after a short bit. I wonder if it's Firefox or my 30 privacy and security extensions lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I use Teams on linux on the desktop with no firefox. You might try that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, our daily stand ups are via Teams (international team too) and it works pretty smoothly.

One oddity I’ve noticed is that when working from home and on (fast) Wi-Fi, it will hang for a moment and say the connection has an issue, but then be fine for the rest of the call. When I’m in the office in don’t think I’ve seen it do that.

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