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[-] venusaur@lemmy.world 162 points 1 week ago

Microsoft OneDrive is the maggots in the dog shit

[-] PlantJam@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

There shouldn't be worms in the poop of a healthy dog. This analogy just keeps getting better and more accurate.

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[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Oooh, I hate it so bad….. I used to click “Save” and my word document would ask to save in the only folder I save ALL my documents in. Change the name, save, so easy!

Now it asks if I want to save to OneDrive… Fuck No Mr Paperclip! I want it in the folder I always use and don’t want to have to select “Other” then dig through screens to select the thing I use every time!

[-] wasabi@lemmy.eco.br 13 points 1 week ago
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[-] iii@mander.xyz 135 points 1 week ago

That's all.

There's more: microsoft outlook is garbage

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 80 points 1 week ago

The new outlook has exceeded "garbage" and gone all the way to dumpster fire. It sometimes takes upwards of 15, 30 seconds to open an email. The new auto formatting is a hindrance to be overcome by tricking it to act how you want. Trying to schedule an event across timezones shits the bed half the time, resulting in improper meeting times being sent out. Absolute failure.

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago

New Outlook also doesn't support Really Simple Syndication, which I used a lot with the Old Outlook.

So back to old Outlook I go.

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[-] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

I'll die on the hill that classic outlook is far better than Gmail and similar web interfaces for email especially if you have long threads or lots of emails.

Also somehow Google's email search sucks so bad compared to searching in outlook.

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[-] Squorlple@lemmy.world 119 points 1 week ago

Microsoft Teams isn’t all bad! For example, it bogged down my work computer so much at start up that I would basically get an extra break.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago

It temporarily deletes my meetings just before they happen, so that I don't have to attend them!

Of course, when I open it later, the meetings are restored, with the original date, and no trace of the deletion. So not attending them is quite hard to explain to others. But it does save me from attending!

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[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 95 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Microsoft ~~Teams~~ is dog shit

That's all.

[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago
Bill Gates is en route to your location 
[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

Oh dear god, no, what have I done

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[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 89 points 1 week ago

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?

[-] Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee 48 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 39 points 1 week ago

In mean aside from the fact that almost all of that story is completely wrong, it’s a good story.

Source: Used to work at Microsoft and worked a lot with people from the Skype team.

[-] ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol 20 points 1 week ago
[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 63 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Skype made the call negotiation go through a central server (as does all systems nowadays). Skype was originally built on Kazaa technology to punch through firewalls without a central coordinator and that’s what Microsoft removed. They didn’t remove it to track the calling but to enable larger group calls on weaker devices which required video mixing on a central system rather than peer to peer call (where weaker peers couldn’t decode that many video streams). Calls up to 4 are still routed peer to peer if the backend can find routes through all firewalls.

Very very little of Skype was in the new Teams if anything. Teams was a rewrap of Communicator calling tech and was a response to Slack. The real tile chatting had nothing to do with Skype either.

Skype lingered in Microsoft for a couple of reasons; Microsoft was crap at acquiring businesses back then, thinking that a hands off approach was best. It meant Skype never really became a proper Microsoft team - they still felt and acted like Skype employees and they didn’t manage to affect Redmond very well. Being acquired is super hard especially when almost all of the bigger business was in a different time zone and a different culture.

I was at a leadership development workshop with a tonne of Skype leaders about 10 years ago. They were still feeling incredibly frustrated and not understanding what was expected of them. It was a botched acquisition and the fault was on both sides.

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[-] Magister@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

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...

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[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

How the fuck did they let motherfucking Zoom take over. The video-call equivalent of "Googling" something was to "Skype." When Covid hit, Microsoft screwed the pooch horribly.

My sister is super high ranking at Microsoft, and when she calls the family, she uses Zoom.

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[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 66 points 1 week ago

I was expecting a detailed rant, including an example or two. “That’s all” is much, much funnier.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 33 points 1 week ago

Need a Explanation?

(Gestures vaguely in the air)

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[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 65 points 1 week ago

Is there a Microsoft product that isn't?

To be fair, Teams is pretty bad even for MS. I've never seen something do so relatively little and still perform so poorly. When I switched jobs and got to use Slack it was like a great fog being lifted off of my being.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 36 points 1 week ago
[-] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 42 points 1 week ago

You may know already, but you should try VSCodium. At least they took the Micro$hit telemetry out!

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[-] Godort@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

Excel, Active Directory, and to a somewhat lesser degree MSSQL.

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[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

Sadly I had to go the other way, from Slack to Teams. Oh the horror!!

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[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 week ago

It's still better than WebEx because I don't have to log in to that piece of shit software to start a video call.

[-] mPony@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

fucking WebEx

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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 36 points 1 week ago

i hate ms with every fiber of my being, but teams has gotten better. it used to be practically unusable. now its just mostly so

[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

There’s a huge Teams outage right now. I have to use it at work and it makes me want to jump face first into a wood chipper.

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[-] wax@feddit.nu 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The file/document integration is based on SharePoint. Shit built on top of a nice pile of manure

Edit: and don't get me started on the teams android app which requires access to all your media if you try to share a single image. If you share it as a file attachment however it's completely fine. No your not getting access to my files and pictures MS, keep your filthy adware fingers off my data

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[-] hypertown@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Honestly I don't know how it is even possible to make such a dog shit product. I think my first webrtc tutorial app works better than this piece of shit.

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[-] Zink@programming.dev 23 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Spoken like a person who isn't forced to use JIRA

[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

We have that pile of dog shit as well!

[-] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago

Let us not forget confluence

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[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 12 points 1 week ago

We just switched to Jira and I hate how pedantic they let admins make it.

Who in their right mind disables the "clone" option on issues 🤦‍♂️

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[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 week ago

Microsoft ~~Teams~~ is dog shit

FTFY

[-] Aeri@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

"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.

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[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

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

[-] themachine@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Slow, buggy, annoying interface, hogs extreme amounts of resources locally, can be used to spy on its users.

What's not to like? It's basically how Elon envisions X, an "everything app" that is actually good at nothing specific.

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[-] frank@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

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