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It’s Teams. On a intel Mac with no management software, it is a shitty, buggy mess.
Works beautifully on an M1. I never have any of the issues that colleagues do on their heavily IT mutilated PCs.
Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
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#92This happens because of how Microsoft approaches product development and design. On many product teams, PMs end up doing not only the product design decisions but even designs much of the products themselves. This works for them because it focuses product cycles on releasing what "matters" to the customer, but it ends up cutting craft and quality. This makes their products poor to use, but is also what drives revenue…
For this reason the US military said NO to Microsoft [1] The more the deep state (nothing about conspiracy theory, it's just the people at the oval office, and their surroundings, mostly industry lobby) want to trust and push Microsoft, the worse it's going to get in the coming years were AI, software and hardware will be the deciding factor for the civilization war we are currently living > Microsoft insiders worry…
Looks like Microsoft will have to do in the matter of keeping the state from being too efficient.
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#93This feels like an extremely basic state to detect: after n seconds of no heartbeat, reconnect.
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#94I used it in the browser with Linux and it wasn't great. But on a mac it is fine and I haven't experienced any real problems.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
#95This happens because of how Microsoft approaches product development and design. On many product teams, PMs end up doing not only the product design decisions but even designs much of the products themselves. This works for them because it focuses product cycles on releasing what "matters" to the customer, but it ends up cutting craft and quality. This makes their products poor to use, but is also what drives revenue…
I suggest that Teams only gets used because it’s included in the enormous license that companies buy for Exchange and/or Office and the most popular alternative has its own fees. Large companies don’t want to fork over another licensing fee in the tens of thousands of dollars for Slack when they’re getting Teams “free.”
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#98Long ago Microsoft had MSN Messenger, which was one of the leading messaging apps. It worked well, and many 'normal' users were using it. Then Microsoft dissolved the team behind it and screwed up the product so bad with bloatware and ads that everyone moved to WhatsApp (except in the US where people went back to texting). Then Microsoft came out with Communicator, renamed it to Lync, which was a corporate messenger/…
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#99My company is transitioning to Teams and I find it frustrating. So much so that I collect my complaints in a confluence page. I could be wrong on some of these, so happy to be corrected! No links You can’t link to conversations. This means if you want to add context to a Jira ticket or in a code comment, you can’t easily do so. Inconsistent UI The UI between a Teams channel and a chat with multiple people is not cons…
How hard is it to get codeblocks working instead of them focusing on every use case on the planet. It's so damn terrible.
Re: Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
#100This has been my only real complaint in the ~8 months using the client