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Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users

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Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users

#11
I work at Microsoft and I don't like Teams. However, I recently checked out Slack to chat with old coworkers and I realized Slack dropped ability to control the desktop remotely.

Also, unrelated. Teams on Ubuntu (for personal use) kicks me out after 12 hours and I need to sign in again. I don't know why.

Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users

#13
My client says "We couldn't connect to the internet. Try checking your connection." I mean, sure, perhaps connectivity issues typically occur at a point that I myself can check more readily than Microsoft can check. But how about I save those checks for when every damn thing doesn't work, even if none of those things explicitly suggest that I do so, instead apologizing or blaming themselves. I'd like that.

Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users

#18

It's hard to understand why Teams is so bad. They have all these engineers, and it's not like it's difficult to make a chat program. Teleconferencing, sure, that's difficult. But most of the problems I hear about is "Teams crashed" or "Wouldn't connect" or "Makes my machine run unbearably slow". How do you end up with such a crap app? And why is the interface so terrible? Can't they afford UX people? And why are ther…

The project execution is also remarkably bad. In 2020, they set out a multi-phase schedule for renaming the “Planner” app to “Tasks by Planner and Todo” to “Tasks.” https://www.onmsft.com/feature/whats-going-on-with-the-tasks.... It’s been a year and a half and they’re still on the second phase!

Even by the low standards of web apps—I just learned about nvm today, WTH?—somehow Teams manages to be outright garbage. My office is a Microsoft shop and it actually makes me worried about what we’re going to do when the old C++ grognards at MS retire. What’s going to happen to Office, Outlook, etc?

Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users

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I work at Microsoft and I don't like Teams. However, I recently checked out Slack to chat with old coworkers and I realized Slack dropped ability to control the desktop remotely. Also, unrelated. Teams on Ubuntu (for personal use) kicks me out after 12 hours and I need to sign in again. I don't know why.

Slack said controlling screens was too difficult. I was sad to see them remove it.

They do have the ability to draw on other users screen, something I use much more.

Re: Microsoft Teams down for thousands of users

#20

It's hard to understand why Teams is so bad. They have all these engineers, and it's not like it's difficult to make a chat program. Teleconferencing, sure, that's difficult. But most of the problems I hear about is "Teams crashed" or "Wouldn't connect" or "Makes my machine run unbearably slow". How do you end up with such a crap app? And why is the interface so terrible? Can't they afford UX people? And why are ther…

> How do you end up with such a crap app?

Developers valuing their own experience over literally everything else, combined with them not understanding what they're doing and using way too many abstraction layers.

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