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Wait until you discover the joys of Teams search.
For Teams it's already too hard to scroll up in a chat. It keeps jumping around and often automatically scrolls down to the bottom again. With this in mind I don't expect search to do anything.
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A link preview vulnerability in Teams vs a backdoor for China. I choose the vulnerability! At work we were briefed in detail by spy from CSIS to avoid Zoom. I trust the Canadian spy before a trust I company with CCP ties. The only thing I can add from that briefing is avoid Zoom, Huawei and product from Facebook, use Telegram if you can and Teams or Google current messaging solution if you can't.
Why Telegram specifically? Wouldn't Signal be considered a more private/secure messenger?
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A link preview vulnerability in Teams vs a backdoor for China. I choose the vulnerability! At work we were briefed in detail by spy from CSIS to avoid Zoom. I trust the Canadian spy before a trust I company with CCP ties. The only thing I can add from that briefing is avoid Zoom, Huawei and product from Facebook, use Telegram if you can and Teams or Google current messaging solution if you can't.
> use Telegram also from CSIS briefing?
I work with several large organisations, all using Teams. In every instance, the previous solution (Slack/Zoom/Discord) was replaced by Teams following higher management making the switch for reasons like "it's included in Office 365" or a new hire influencing the migration to Microsoft solutions. In every instance, the application was/is not well received by the employees - it's slow, buggy, crazy complicated and ge…
Anecdotally (as a counterpoint), we also went with teams, and it’s been… fine. There are bugs, but they’re mostly in the category of “irritating” rather than “massively disruptive”. It’s nice that teams is integrated with the rest of Microsoft’s 365 and outlook stuff, and service uptime has been good enough. From my POV, the differences vs Slack have been pretty minor (although I recognize that my experience isn’t un…
teams calling is not, they do not even share the contacts, they only sync and sometimes they do not.
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I agree so much! It is baffling to me that so many companies/schools/individuals are actively using it. It is _so_ _bad_. Messages are lost, it reboots spontaneously, it crashes, one cannot turn off emoticons (I think (the UI doesn't help)), etc. It does not even take security seriously. What is good about that software? And then when I talk about this with colleagues, they seem to be just fine with it... Anyway, sor…
The reason people use it is because either they don’t have a say in it or they legitimately never used anything better (such as Slack or the lesser-known competitors like Mattermost). If your benchmark is Skype for Business or email then I guess Teams is indeed an upgrade, and Microsoft is betting on that.
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For me and my team CTRL+A randomly stops working for an hour. It happens every single day randomly for different members. Just mind-boggling BS every day with Teams. My Android client randomly signs me out, sometimes multiple times per day.
Here's my "it's not stupid if it works" fix (that doesn't involve restarting Teams). Click on any message in a chat, click CTRL- (or CMD-) A, and congrats, select all works again. Please don't read this as a defense of Teams -- I'm just another frustrated user.
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Wait until you discover the joys of Teams search.
The pros of Teams search is it is pretty good at finding things, like random chat message from someone who has left the company years ago. The cons of Teams search is it is almost useless when you can only view the single message in the result list, e.g. a single chat message without any surrounding messages for context, and also no possible way to jump to the conversation for that message.
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> In 2020 a rash of anti-zoom propaganda that I'm almost certain was driven by Microsoft led to a company-wide prohibition on using anything other than Teams "for security reasons" where i worked. It was not propaganda. There was no privacy protection. I work for a K-12 and there was literally no way to configure Zoom such that it wasn't a massive FERPA violation waiting to happen. There was originally no way to gate…
It was the only accessible solution that supports a large number of participants and features easy enough installation. Teams was far more limited than Zoom and might still be.
Also Teams/SfB, despite years and years of their users complaining about the limit to concurrent video feeds, never progressed past about four until Zoom came on the scene. They didn't just exceed Teams by a few, but like an order of magnitude.
I use Teams every day but thank God for Zoom driving improvement. Just underscores the value of market competition.
In 2020 a rash of anti-zoom propaganda that I'm almost certain was driven by Microsoft led to a company-wide prohibition on using anything other than Teams "for security reasons" where i worked. This was, I am almost certain, inspired by Microsoft corporate sales getting their hooks into management. This was largely because of news stories like "end to end encryption doesnt really work as advertised" and "if you leav…
Zoom put a backdoor (like, a full web server) in their Mac version and didn't even remove it when outed until Apple pushed an update that killed it for them. Which was a big unprecedented step.
Mistakes happen. Total lack of action when it happens shows at the very least a total disinterest. They definitely did lack a focus on security and privacy at that time.
I agree Microsoft is pretty aggressive and teams is a pig of an app in my opinion (slow and bloated) but zoom really dug their own grave too IMO.
For what it's worth I find Jitsi delightful and super performant. I use teams a lot with work and Jitsi with our makerspace and it's just so much better at the video conferencing role.
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I know right? Plus MS Teams is the among the most used apps in the enterprise world how come the only good version of it is only available in Windows 11 where most workplaces aren't even pushing it to their users. The way Microsoft handles Teams annoys the crap out of me the MacOS and Linux versions are left to die basically.
It is (by far) the most horrific piece of software I'm forced to used, the UI/UX is confusing, it's a battery killer, eats all the ram (though - that's common with all electron garbage), it somehow manages to make Bluetooth headsets drop out, it significantly impacts network performance when sharing video, a lot of bugs in the calendaring system.... I could go on, but damn I just hate it.