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Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules in place

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Re: Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules in place

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I still absolutely loathe teams. There is no way to get it to show you have unread messages (the red dot of slack). Notifications do not work reliably. When I am in a Teams channel I miss notifications from the Chat channels, and vice versa. For me Teams has been a major downgrade from Slack

My biggest gripe is people keep creating new "posts" thinking they're simply typing in to a normal chat window. The posts are replies to other posts, but then when you go back to that screen (team?) they're in a completely random order.

They should add a speed bump to post a new topic in a team, like the new chat button in the chats.

Re: Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules in place

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I still absolutely loathe teams. There is no way to get it to show you have unread messages (the red dot of slack). Notifications do not work reliably. When I am in a Teams channel I miss notifications from the Chat channels, and vice versa. For me Teams has been a major downgrade from Slack

At my current client we use teams for meetings/conf calls. All chat communication is still slack.

That doesn’t even make sense

Re: Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules in place

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"An individual will always, every single time, without fail, know what they need better than a 3rd party who nominates themselves to make decisions on behalf of others" This is completely false. Most individuals in a panic buying situation never know what they really need compared to a calm, educated and knowledgeable 3rd party. This crisis has also proved your assertion wrong - witness the mass buying of perishable…

> This crisis has also proved your assertion wrong - witness the mass buying of perishable foods and toilet paper. It hasn’t at all. For starters, non-perishable food was absolutely the first to vanish off the shelves. But that aside, buying too much has no detriment at all to the purchaser. The risk that they may not consume all of it is so incredibly minimal compared to what they’re actually worried about. This is…

You are clearly not reading the news.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8168489/Social-medi...

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manches...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coronavirus-outrage-bi...

Re: Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules in place

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Wow. First of all, I'm curious to what proportions this is driven primarily by remote office work (O365), videoconferencing streaming, recreational video streaming (does Disney+ run on Azure?), or what. But second... I'm fascinated by the concept of prioritization rules in place rather than simply raising prices. I wonder if it "looks bad" to raise prices, or if the vast majority of customers already have locked-in p…

It would certainly look bad, and I think it would potentially be illegal in some states. https://consumer.findlaw.com/consumer-transactions/price-gou... For example, Georgia: > Selling items or services determined by the Governor during a declared state of emergency to be necessary for public safety at a higher cost than they were immediately prior to the declaration. Kansas: > For any supplier of a "necessary proper…

Isn't limiting availability also covered by laws ? Why should we pay the same price for limited service ? (Unless that's covered by their ToS?)

Re: Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules in place

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I wonder what the net neutrality people think?

Net neutrality is about the network itself, the internet, not cloud computing.

I thought net neutrality is “all bits are created equal.”

Service providers shouldn’t discriminate between one bit and another - no deals that prefer some providers or traffic over others.

It usually refers to ISPs, but I don’t see why it doesn’t apply to cloud providers too.

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