This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I am glad that I never had to use it, but I have heard many complaints in my circle. The most common one being that it changes one core UI or workflow every fortnight.
Imagine the plight of people who just want to get their work done and go home, only for them to see a tool critical to their work has automatically decided to update and now has a reshuffled UI.
Cannot help but feel that there are too many product managers trying to make their mark on the product.
I don’t have to imagine it, I’m living it.
Agreed. They switched us to teams for our softphone and the caller ID doesn't even show me the number that called half the time. I just get a generic location which is worthless to me.
Microsoft ~~Teams~~ is dog shit
That's all.
Bill Gates is en route to your location
I literally saw someone using slack the other day and got excited. Wtf is wrong with me
At least it's better than Slack and Discord. Still shit of course, but it could be worse.
better than Slack
You’re not supposed to be this drunk this early in the day.
Yes. But moving on, Is this just a modless wasteland of a community? It seems like anything goes in /technology
What blows my mind is MS fucking bought Skype and somehow Teams still can't handle video calls correctly. The actual fuck did they do with that acquisition?
Skype used to be peer to peer. Your call went from you to your friend (whomever). Microsoft decided that they couldn't mitm that setup to scrape data; so, soon after they acquired Skype, they made all calls go through their servers.
Then they tried to make Skype make more money, since those servers aren't free. Then they made teams and copied half the code into that, and cludged the rest to make it hold together.
Well, I'm a unix guy for 30 years and hated M$ bill gates blablabla and forced to use windows at work etc. Teams was somewhat bad at the beginning, especially start of covid pandemic , I'm using Teams multiple times daily for ~5 years now. But since ~1 year it handles video call pretty nicely, 20+ feeds, share screens, whiteboard, etc. it's pretty stable at least, don't crash anymore, and we can have multiple accounts. It took times to reach this state I agree...
In the past two years, I have had horrible issues where it decides that I'm not allowed to join the call because I have a Teams account logged into a different organization, that it won't let me log out of. An issue where Microsoft servers just time out if you have ipv6 enabled, etc.
Don't get me started on Skype for Business. It's still around.
I wish we could use Slack.
Let’s start our own company, with blackjack, Slack, and hookers.
It was a few years ago, but I still panic when I hear the incoming call sound. One of the worst sounds ever made.
Yes, yes it is.
