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Microsoft Teams; using one monopoly to aid another

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Re: Microsoft Teams; using one monopoly to aid another

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Post by prometheus76 »

guhidalg wrote: post #8
prometheus76 wrote: post #3

Here'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.

I was saying it tongue in cheek, but you're right. It just got more attention because of the pandemic, and it's only gotten worse over time.

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Post by stefan_ »

prometheus76 wrote: post #3

Here'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…

When you rip it open you'll find Skype for a heart.

Re: Microsoft Teams; using one monopoly to aid another

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Post by bener »

_8j50 wrote: post #4
arkad wrote: post #2

I 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.

The year of the Linux desktop in what way? I find it hard to believe Linux desktop will have any kind of massive growth this year.

Re: Microsoft Teams; using one monopoly to aid another

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Post by hackerfromthefu »

stefan_ wrote: post #12
prometheus76 wrote: post #3

Here'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…

When you rip it open you'll find Skype for a heart.

And same lead architect, incredible that both system suck so bad while having so many users.

Re: Microsoft Teams; using one monopoly to aid another

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Post by userbinator »

On searching for “How to remove teams via GPO Windows 11” I was greeted with a lovely well instructed page which basically says: “You need to make a scheduled task that removes teams every day”

Better to use the security features of the system against itself. Deny permissions to the files to everyone (even yourself --- you can create a separate account and assign ownership of the files to it, so it's the only one which can reassign ownership/change permissions) and it'll probably stop. However, I agree that when you need to fight with a system that tries to behave against your will through malware-ish means, it definitely puts into light the question of who it thinks is the real owner.

Re: Microsoft Teams; using one monopoly to aid another

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Post by userbinator »

stefan_ wrote: post #12
prometheus76 wrote: post #3

Here'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…

When you rip it open you'll find Skype for a heart.

Skype was pretty good before MS bought it.

Even MSN Messenger was pretty well-behaved in its earlier versions, and definitely far better with resource usage.

Re: Microsoft Teams; using one monopoly to aid another

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Post by emptyparadise »

stefan_ wrote: post #12
prometheus76 wrote: post #3

Here'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…

When you rip it open you'll find Skype for a heart.

Except it's Skype for Business, which is actually not Skype at all.

Re: Microsoft Teams; using one monopoly to aid another

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Post by throwawaysea »

Apart from copying Slack, they also copied Notion: https://www.fastcompany.com/90692715/microsoft-loop-notion-c...

Copying the innovation of smaller players and bundling it with existing subscriptions is a pretty despicable practice and so obviously anti competitive. I can only assume politicians look the other way since they rely on MS PAC donations.

As for the anti competitive UI dark patterns in this article - it is just very incredibly sleezy and people need to go to jail for it.

Re: Microsoft Teams; using one monopoly to aid another

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Post by depereo »

bener wrote: post #14
_8j50 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The year of the Linux desktop in what way? I find it hard to believe Linux desktop will have any kind of massive growth this year.

You're right. 2023 will be the year of the Linux desktop.
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