Technology

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.

I don’t care. I’ll take anything that maintains staff meetings from home. Before COVID they were 90% in person.

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

I mean, with winter coming in, and universities not bothering to heat the building, teams turning my potato work laptop into a furnace is the only thing keeping us warm this winter...

Serious question - is their long term strategy bad optimisation to sell hardware? Do they have shares in intel or something?!?

You put more effort into this post than M$ did to their product

No, no! Dogshit sometimes fertilizes and promotes growth. Microsoft teams is poison.

Microsoft ~~Teams~~ is dog shit

FTFY

They make use it at my job. I hate it.

My company has teams and slack and IT wants to switch to all teams. The thread where they announced this had to be locked. :D I don't know how a trillion dollar company can't get this right. Worst yet the bundle that shit with everything and overworked IT depts pick it by default.

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.

I dont know.. SharePoint has pissed me the hell off too, its a close one

I mean , works for me. You know what is complete bullshit?

SKYPE. Using that in a work environment is a nightmare

Microsoft spent billions acquiring Skype only for us to be left with Teams

Unfortunately, much better than Skype

Out of curiosity are any similar products actually good? My company uses Webex and frankly I'd rather use teams.

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.

Teams was a factor in leaving my last job. It was a small factor, but a factor nevertheless.

Genuinely the single worst messaging app I've ever used. Worse than Skype, which is crazy because Microsoft owns that too.

Of all the Microsoft products I’m forced to use for work, teams is by far the best. It still sucks. Fuck Microsoft. Fuck monopolies.

I have an office account for work. I don’t happen upon the troubles people report here. I couldn’t leave MS as I basically use all their stuff for work (and so do the several other hundreds of employees here). But teams does work well: texting, videocalls with 100s of participants, recording meetings, file repositories

I use teams every day. My only gripe recently is the messages like “look the wonderful things we did to improve it” that I didn’t need and will probably never use, but I press the little X don’t know don’t care