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[-] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago

Honestly though, its not the developers fault. 100% they are being told what to prioritize working on, and I'm certain its exclusively business facing improvements. Microsoft only cares about making the package of features they provide look sexy to the people who would be pulling the trigger on bringing Teams to their office, not the people who actually have to use it.

Sadly this is just the way capitalism works, short term thinking, sacrifice the product for the sales, and then 5 years down the road wonder where it all went wrong; or monopolize the market and pay congress to pull the ladder up behind you.

[-] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 months ago

Am I the only one on Lemmy who uses Teams every day and basically has no issues? It’s not perfect, but I much prefer it over SfB, Lync, G2M, WebEx, Zoom & RingCentral.

I feel like people who hate Teams never had to suffer through Skype for Business, which truly was one of the worst pieces of software I’ve ever used in my life. It used the layout engine from WORD to render chat windows. It had an unsynchronized mobile client that 9/10 never received messages unless it was open while the person sent it. It was hell.

Most of Teams’ problems stem from it being an Electron app that aggressively caches everything, which new Teams actually solves so I’m pretty happy with it. I also have to support users of it for our org too, so I don’t just use it constantly I also have to fix it if it breaks, so it’s not just lack of awareness of common issues.

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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago

my proverbial non existent children, will not be having any sort of relations with anybody who develops cringe and unfunny closed sourced software, no sir, not in my household.

[-] MenacingPerson@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

your proverbial non existent household

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[-] VARXBLE@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago

My organization has all of our shared folders INSIDE of the Teams file structure. Supposedly, One Drive should sync with the files inside of Teams, but this never happens. Instead we have people constantly asking for files that are in the shared folders, but because they aren't manually syncing every time they open the folder, they aren't seeing shit. Its so goddamm frustrating, but my boss is insistent on keeping everything inside the one app for "convenience".

THERE'S NOTHING CONVENIENT ABOUT TEAMS AHHHH

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago

I love how when you share a file in a teams chat, it’s inaccessible to people who join the chat after you upload the file.

[-] VARXBLE@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

Patented Microsoft Convenience™ at work!

[-] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

zoom is the best one except for the weirdly horrible chat feature

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[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 months ago

"don't sleep with both eyes shut tonight"

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

dont tell him that. then he might see you. unlike all the trash he let through.

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

I’ve been in companies that use Teams and companies that use Slack. The difference was people actually used Slack outside their core team channels. Teams was nearly a ghost town in the wider organization. I felt that was solid evidence that people only used Teams because they had to. They also had to use Slack, but they also kind of liked it.

[-] Clanket@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I have a small business and we all work from home. Teams is amazing for remote working. Great for chatting, sharing screens and remote controlling another computer. Don't know why it's getting so much hate.

[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Its features are great, like any other web confrence software that does the same.

However the constant UI changes lead to a lot of issues for IT people who have re-tech the entire staff how to use it every update. For a small business thats not probably too bad. For somewhere with hundreds of employee working from home who barley know where the start menu is - that's a nightmare.

The "new" teams doesn't work with business accounts. you have to use the specific, now seperate, version for "work and school". Guess which one the everyone's existing desktop link is to? Now IT has to get everyone to use the right version of teams...an absolutely insane choice and terrible end user expirence.

[-] IMALlama@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Teams feels a bit like a never ending beta. On one hand, it's kind of nice to get constant tweaks and it's generally pretty good. On the other, things do break from time to time. There's also the whole "new teams" thing, which feels... very similar to "old teams". All the old sillyness, like not being able to folder dive in a team while chatting (it will forget where you were when you switch back) for not much benefit. It also is a big regression in basics like spell check speed. It takes seconds for a red squiggle to send, so now my spoild self has to wait a bit before hitting enter.

At least it's not new outlook. Everything on that is way slower and it's very clear the UI was not optimized for a computer. Left click to spell check in an email body, right click to spell check in an email title. Want to add formatting in a meeting invite? Ha, that's rich. Even very basic things like changing fonts take forever.

Both feel a bit like a new PM being given the reigns and going at it. I struggle to see what was so wrong with the old versions, especially outlook...

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