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You put more effort into this post than M$ did to their product
Thanks, your bill is in the mail.
I love how they rolled out the new upgraded Teams and it’s still awful!
yes
The “new” outlook is also god awful. I’d rather use the OWA.
It’s the worst and has been running like total crap for years. Even Skype for business worked better. Luckily it is better than Cisco Jabber or Webex.
My boss puts it best. WebEx for Calling, Zoom for Meetings and Teams for Collaboration (the actual Teams function).
I used Webex at my last job, it was pretty decent.
Yeah I’m going to go ahead and record this meeting. Please speak up if you object. Because we’ve provided so much psychological safety that there will surely be no judgement or fear of reprisal for those with any hesitation to swim in line with the corporate current. We’re also going to share files in this chat that you’ll have to catalogue and remember - so when someone refers to a nondescript file shared 3 weeks ago you’ll be forced to know exactly which chat and file you’re referring to. Also, put yourself on video. We appreciate face to face communication.
That’s not really Teams fault though. Sounds more like a team issue than a Teams issue.
The work of the devil
Too fuckin right m8
As if there’s a single lead developer behind MS Teams. There’s probably like 100+ devs working on it in a dozen teams or more.
Do you think the Microsoft Teams team uses Microsoft Teams in their teams to develop Microsoft Teams?
Probably, dogfooding is common.
I heard even the dev team behind MS SourceSafe didn’t use SourceSafe. I don’t blame them.
Bruh it was a placeholder cuz it took me a sec to find the meme lmao
I dont know… SharePoint has pissed me the hell off too, its a close one
Fun fact, teams backend is sharepoint. It’s just a fancy wrapper on top 🤡
Well now I just feel bad for the team behind teams 🤣
Out of curiosity are any similar products actually good? My company uses Webex and frankly I’d rather use teams.
We used to use Slack + Zoom and had a much better experience than Teams.
I prefer Zulip but because we have Teams we use teams.
Slack is better than Teams IMO, but I don’t know if I’d call it “good.”
Zulip is better than slack
Zoom and Google Meets have both worked better for me.
My company switched from WebEx to Teams and while Teams is not great it’s way better than WebEx.
Within my actual team we just use Slack Huddles unless we have to record. For my personal stuff I prefer Jitsi.
Since I have not seen anyone mention this problem yet: Teams doesn’t let you mute other people in a call for yourself. Obviously also no volume control per person. Imagine sitting next to your coworker in a teams meeting and having to deal with hearing them twice with like 20 ms delay. Awful.
What other video call apps let you do that? Teams lets you mute others for everyone, and I do that semi-regularly for the exact reason you cited.
In my experience, neither Slack nor other apps (that all blow Teams out of the water) can do that - except Discord, which isn’t exactly a common office meeting app.
I no longer work with corporations, but an online ornithology classI did used teams. It worked, mostly, for a while. Then one day it decided that video would no longer work on my machine. Of course there’s no obvious log or anything.
I even booted windows to see if it would fix it, but no.
That was on a very exotic yoga 7 pro laptop.
It’s the only piece of software that’s ever behaved that way.
I use it daily and think it’s excellent. Skype, on tnge other hand, is diabolical.
🌈You’re insane💫
I can’t believe we still can’t moderate chat in a public webinar…. « Hey the guy who wrote ‘FUCK’ 20 times? Yeah you can kick him out, but make sure to keep these messages visible for all posterity »
Can’t send private messages to outsiders also. Who could EVER need this in a public event anyway?
And make sure you can’t let people join the breakout room of their choice. Take the time to individually assign them one by one before the meeting! Fun!!
Hey at least we can play Backgammon in a meeting, so there’s that right?
No, no! Dogshit sometimes fertilizes and promotes growth. Microsoft teams is poison.
I still don’t want it on my desk though.
For the budding gardeners who might see this, do not use dogshit as fertilizer for the plants you eat.
Hey, poison has it’s uses too, unlike Teams.
Genuinely the single worst messaging app I’ve ever used. Worse than Skype, which is crazy because Microsoft owns that too.
and Skype was worse than MSN Messenger. I’m still upset they killed off the better product.
I have a Jabra Headset (now retired) that literally has a MS Teams logo on the side and is market as “Teams compatible”. As you might have guessed, Teams is the only VC app were I regularly have to switch betwen inputs to get the headset to work during a call.
Every. Fucking. Meeting. Why can’t teams just default to my system default.
I don’t care. I’ll take anything that maintains staff meetings from home. Before COVID they were 90% in person.
Yup. It’s got a stupid amount of bloat for what it is used for, but it’s aggressively “okay.”
Will take it everyday of the week instead of taking meetings in person.
Yup, it does exactly what I want it to do: link scheduled meetings to my Outlook calendar (corp requirement) and let me join from a notification box. We have Slack for everything else.
It’s not great, but it’s certainly okay. Call quality is fine, the chat is crappy but gets the job done (supports links, files, and plain text, which is enough), and audio/camera settings are surprisingly decent. It works well for our use-case, which is scheduled meetings. Impromptu (i.e. useful) meetings happen over Slack.
“aggressively okay” is the best description i’ve ever head of MS teams
