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Teams is the result of Microsoft taking a look at Slack and saying, how can we make this feel more like Excel?
Internal code name was Slack360
365? Also can’t tell if you’re serious or joking.
GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices
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If I were forced to use teams I would quit. At least if you're laid off you get serverance
>>If I were forced to use teams I would quit. It's funny to hear this because if I were looking for a job one of the selling points for me would be if they used teams. I'm on it all day, I present and run video meetings on it. I use it on different devices. It's not perfect by any means, but I'm confident that it will do what I need it to do. My only guess is you're on a linux desktop and you don't use an enterprise…
I use it on an M1 Max Macbook Pro and it's the worst piece of software on it.
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You've clearly never used Teams. But in all seriousness Teams is fine for chat and video.
I used it for two years next to WebEx and it is the worst of all. Not only UX is the worst (cannot have a normal channel, everything is a thread, you cannot change alignment of messages) also the rate of people complaining their Teams does not work was staggering.
You can have a channel, of sorts. You add people to a giant group message and change the title.
Voila. Channel. You need to know someone in the channel to add you to the channel, but suddenly you can avoid that threaded bullshit.
God I hate using teams
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this is terrifying. for all the grief people give Slack, I've used both and I would seriously consider leaving a company that expected me to use Teams long term.
We use Teams long term and would give quite a bit to be able to use Slack. At least it's a great tool to focus our negative energies on, lol.
Call me when Slack allows collaborative editing of powerpoint presentations and excel spreadsheets. I think there is little overlap between the part of the companies which benefit from Teams and the part that wants to use Slack.
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#126Gitlab and Github look like they are forked from the same branch. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/09/gitlab-layoffs-company-to-cu...
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Except it can't. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34648167
Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices
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#128When I visited the GitHub office in SF in 2017, it was nearly empty. Given how extravagant and beautiful it is, it struck me as a colossal waste of money even then.
They even had a full-scale replica of the Oval Office there
https://twitter.com/harrymccracken/status/710956599477534720...
Re: GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices
#129My heart goes out to the laid off employees, though I think they'll be able to find solid jobs (or start their own companies) when they're ready. What I'm more surprised by is: 1. GitHub operating so independently from Microsoft at large that they have their own layoffs (not included in the 10k people that Microsoft announced they'll be parting ways with). 2. GitHub operating SO INDEPENDENTLY that they can decide to…
Is this GitHub acting independently or is it Microsoft informing them that they needed to lose 10% but they could do it on their own time frame?
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>i) Effective immediately, we will be moving laptop refreshes from three years to four years. ii) We will be moving to Microsoft Teams for the sole purpose of video conferencing, saving significant cost and simplifying cross-company and customer conversations Layoffs and having to use teams? Talk about a morale hit
I'm not kidding, one of the reasons I left my last job was when our parent company forced Outlook, Sharepoint, and Teams on us (vs. Google mail, Google Drive, and Slack). That change on its own isn't the worst thing of course, there were other reasons why I was considering leaving, but it was definitely one of the last straws. Those MS solutions are just worse than the competition, and getting frustrated at your bugg…
Outlook is more or less fine, but share point and teams are abominations