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It's interesting to understand why facebook got so much wind.
And why Friendster didn't and how FB kneecapped and murdered MySpace in a back alley and got away with it.
It was just ripe for when internet became a plausible soil for society.
On linux, Microsoft teams will change your system sound settings to match its preference. This includes Bluetooth headphones no longer being available to the system. Then, it decides the system settings are beneath it and will only use its own device settings. And it will decide now that your fancy Bluetooth headset is gone, there is also no need for that crappy internal microphone either, so enjoy not having any mic…
Install Microsoft Edge for Linux and use the web version through that. Really, it's a great solution. I've done it for a while. I don't use edge for anything else but it runs teams.microsoft.com great
Also, don't try to do this with firefox: various features (such as sharing your screen) are not available in firefox.
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Install Microsoft Edge for Linux and use the web version through that. Really, it's a great solution. I've done it for a while. I don't use edge for anything else but it runs teams.microsoft.com great
Before installing Edge I checked out the maintainer scripts bundled into its deb. As a result I have vowed it will never sully any machine I am responsible for maintaining.
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Communications software needs to run when and only when I want it to run. Who in the heck are you to tell me when to run an application on a device I own?
No, communications software needs to be in the background ready to use at an instant when needed. There are many people who need more personal discipline to not contact people constantly, but the software itself should be ready for the times when they should contact you, interrupting whatever it is you were doing.
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I've worked at the same place for years, and they switched to Teams a couple of years ago. I can't change their decision, but I can work for somebody else, and having to suffer through this crapware is pushing me in that direction. "Must use Teams" is a huge red flag for any potential job offer.
I use alternate tools in addition to Teams. And I use my budget to pay for other tools.
I hate Teams, but here, I'm going to have to be on it anyway. Slack and other clones are better... but fragmenting communication between two different platforms (one of which must be Teams) is worse than just dumping everything into Teams and being done with it.
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Before installing Edge I checked out the maintainer scripts bundled into its deb. As a result I have vowed it will never sully any machine I am responsible for maintaining.
Any particular horrid details you'd like to share?
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Yup. It might even be that while the engineering team is aware of the faults, the MS exec team considers Teams to be brilliant. At the senior level the role becomes a sales role - you are continuously selling your output, team, product, vision, etc internally to the other execs, board, etc. It's important therefore to present whatever you are producing as exceptional. So you look for indicators that support your pitc…
Was looking for a good place to post this in the thread but I'll just drop it here. Microsoft Teams still lacks multi-account support on desktop. As in, you can't sign on to several business organizations like you can in Slack. It's so dumb and disqualifying. Utter nightmare if you work with several organizations. https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/c9995dc8-... I've bookmarked that page and I check in…
I think they were really hoping they could make that cross-tenant thing work where you only have one account that you can use as a guest in other orgs, but that really doesn't reflect how things work in the field (you have separate accounts at each organization).
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...for the business strategy: 1. Neutralize the threat from Slack (AKA Salesforce) 2. Give Enterprise sales teams a checklist item 3. Don't spend a dime more than necessary on software development 4. Integrate with the rest of the MS enterprise product line On top of those goals, the internal sponsors of Teams have to survive the savage internal politics at Microsoft, so the product is designed to threaten no importa…
Remember that Microsoft has had a UC/chat app forever. Teams in comparison to Skype for Business is an improvement.