Microsoft Teams; using one monopoly to aid another
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Microsoft Teams; using one monopoly to aid another
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#2I wonder what would need to happen to convince the management that actually they could run on Linux? I mean, 3 years ago the belief was we couldn't work from home because that would harm productivity.
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#3Here's another fun path I went down: I was wondering why contractions were always marked as misspellings. Wanted to edit the dictionary. Can't do that. Turns out, Microsoft Teams has an undocumented hard-coded link to the dictionary from Chromium builds and uses that for its dictionary. You can turn off spell check, but there's no custom dictionary, and there's no way to edit the dictionary.
I'm convinced that Micorosoft Teams was written by a bunch of interns in three months at the beginning of quarantine so that they could compete for all the work-from-home crowd.
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#4I wonder what would need to happen to convince the management that actually they could run on Linux? I mean, 3 years ago the belief was we couldn't work from home because that would harm productivity.
To do what? Corporate endpoints? I like linux but they can't. Servers? Already do and should. But 2022 will be the year of the Linux desktop.
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#5Straightforward antitrust violation. This is exactly what they got in trouble w/ in the 1990's w.r.t. bundling IE w/ Windows. But they know exactly what they are doing. They aren't unaware of the fact that this a violation.
There is a lot of complaining on this site about various FAANG members' anticompetitive behavior (some of it uninformed!), but you all need to make room in your hearts for an M in that acronym when you're talking about antitrust issues, because this behavior is anticompetitive.
Re: Microsoft Teams; using one monopoly to aid another
#6Straightforward antitrust violation. This is exactly what they got in trouble w/ in the 1990's w.r.t. bundling IE w/ Windows. But they know exactly what they are doing. They aren't unaware of the fact that this a violation. There is a lot of complaining on this site about various FAANG members' anticompetitive behavior (some of it uninformed!), but you all need to make room in your hearts for an M in that acronym whe…
Why isn’t Microsoft counted in the FAANG? Isn’t Microsoft and Apple neck and neck for worlds most valuable companies?
Re: Microsoft Teams; using one monopoly to aid another
#7Straightforward antitrust violation. This is exactly what they got in trouble w/ in the 1990's w.r.t. bundling IE w/ Windows. But they know exactly what they are doing. They aren't unaware of the fact that this a violation. There is a lot of complaining on this site about various FAANG members' anticompetitive behavior (some of it uninformed!), but you all need to make room in your hearts for an M in that acronym whe…
Why isn’t Microsoft counted in the FAANG? Isn’t Microsoft and Apple neck and neck for worlds most valuable companies?
because FAANG is originally a stock market term for (at the time) hot tech stocks, and Microsoft was already old and boring.
Re: Microsoft Teams; using one monopoly to aid another
#8Here's another fun path I went down: I was wondering why contractions were always marked as misspellings. Wanted to edit the dictionary. Can't do that. Turns out, Microsoft Teams has an undocumented hard-coded link to the dictionary from Chromium builds and uses that for its dictionary. You can turn off spell check, but there's no custom dictionary, and there's no way to edit the dictionary. I'm convinced that Micoro…
Teams was available before the pandemic.
Re: Microsoft Teams; using one monopoly to aid another
#9Here's another fun path I went down: I was wondering why contractions were always marked as misspellings. Wanted to edit the dictionary. Can't do that. Turns out, Microsoft Teams has an undocumented hard-coded link to the dictionary from Chromium builds and uses that for its dictionary. You can turn off spell check, but there's no custom dictionary, and there's no way to edit the dictionary. I'm convinced that Micoro…
Except Teams existed before things got all COVIDy. Back then I even defended Teams when we had just moved off Slack. I mean, it wasn't great and the Mac client blows goats, but it gets the job done.
And then we all started working from home, and using Teams for more than just a glorified chat app. That's when it became evident to me that my defense of Teams was way unwarranted.
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#10btw. the funniest thing is. they found a way to sync calendar entries and creating automatic teams meetings, but syncing phone contacts with outlook and teams is garbage.
I mean what the fuck? you sell office 365 and can't have a contact management solution in two of your apps? and why the fuck can't you always correctly show the contact name instead of the phone number especially with call queues?