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Re: Bring Your Agent to Teams

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Post by mexicocitinluez »

szszrk wrote: post #40
m348e912 wrote: post #23

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>> Your users live in Teams. > No, I assure you, we do not This absolutism is tiring. I can assure you there are plenty of companies who use teams as their sole messaging platform. My company uses slack, teams, and zoom. Which one you use the most depends on the person or the team they are on. (Although zoom is being phased out to the chagrin of some folks). Teams isn't without it's issues, it's annoyingly slow, and…

> This absolutism is tiring. What is really tiring is using Teams as a tool to embed other websites. Because that's what "apps" and most other functionalities are. Teams is just a very slow web browser with the worst possible way to manage bookmarks and tabs. You clearly don't have an organization fully onboarded to Teams, as you yourself describe. You use it as a conferencing tool. When you add all the other bloat T…

> Why do I have to create a weird "workflow" to receive webhooks in a chat channel?

Clearly? Because they don't feel as passionate about a chat app as you? That's your conclusion from that statement?

> Teams is just a very slow web browser with the worst possible way to manage bookmarks and tabs.

I honestly don't even know what this means. Do you have any experience onboarding a full organization? It sounds like you're just lifting stuff from HN.

> When you add all the other bloat Teams promotes

I've been managing a Teams organization for over 6 years now and the only issue we have is when people are on too many teams. And by too many, I mean 100s of Teams at once. We're a healthcare provider that auto-creates teams for each patient we see and assigns people to them and when managers want to be on all teams, it becomes difficult to use.

If you don't have the skills to manage it, maybe you should step let someone with more experience do it for you.

Re: Bring Your Agent to Teams

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Post by lifescarcity »

Jedd wrote: post #16
leosanchez wrote: post #13

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IMO Only thing good about Teams is Emojis

Do you mean the way that Microsoft hijacked open-parenthesis, and you can't choose a different character to trigger an emoji call?

https://youtu.be/2PYBj_VhvXg?si=eQogTv825zSyeBvX You can use :

Re: Bring Your Agent to Teams

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Post by theshrike79 »

mexicocitinluez wrote: post #59
theshrike79 wrote: post #36

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Try being a consultant who needs to have access to 2+ Teams accounts simultaneously. On Slack I can just press command - and I'm switching between client Slack accounts. On Teams? Nope. Nope. Nope.

> On Teams? Nope. Nope. Nope. What? https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/nonprofittechies/ho...

Did you even read it:

> Click the name of the org you want to switch to. Teams will reload in that environment.

or

> Open teams.microsoft.com in a browser for one org while using the desktop app for another.

How convenient! To check messages in a client Teams I just have to RELOAD THE WHOLE APPLICATION. Or just log in via multiple separate browsers or cereate a full-ass browser profile for each organisation.

That's a weee bit harder than hitting command-2...

It's a garbage fire, people only use it because it's "free" if you have a M365 subscription for the company, not because it's in any way good.

Re: Bring Your Agent to Teams

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Post by brianjking »

GorsyGentle wrote: post #12

> Your users live in Teams. No, I assure you, we do not. Nobody wants to live in hell. Even at my current company, we are mandated solely to use Teams for meetings. But nobody uses it for chat. Thankfully we have Slack to save us from that hell. Even if giphy is disabled because it might have R rated content whatever the hell that means.

lol, I love that their first example is bringing Slack content into Teams. It's like they've completely forgotten if I have Slack, there's 0 way I'm going to have Teams open if I can avoid it at all.

Re: Bring Your Agent to Teams

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Post by brianjking »

psnehanshu wrote: post #22
GorsyGentle wrote: post #12

> Your users live in Teams. No, I assure you, we do not. Nobody wants to live in hell. Even at my current company, we are mandated solely to use Teams for meetings. But nobody uses it for chat. Thankfully we have Slack to save us from that hell. Even if giphy is disabled because it might have R rated content whatever the hell that means.

Slack is a different kind of hell now with their sales-force

Bring back Glitch the game! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_(video_game)

Re: Bring Your Agent to Teams

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Post by Citizen_Lame »

bob1029 wrote: post #49
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #20

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I know it’s NerdCool to hate on Teams, but I really don’t get it. I’m in Linux with portal for teams (electron app)… and it’s fine. Like, we moved to it from slack and I just don’t see much of a difference. I type stuff, and people see it. I set up a call and people join, we talk. What is it that is so broken, or is it just cool to hate?

I had the choice of using discord or teams yesterday to review something and we both picked teams. This is just like the hate for paid databases, operating systems and big clouds. Easy targets that seem politically convenient to attack on statistical grounds ("I think most people here might agree with me"). It's ultimately childish behavior. Adults explore nuance and find compromise between competing ideas. I find my…

Anyone saying Microsoft makes some of the best software on earth needs their head checked or maybe you are just AI bro.

Re: Bring Your Agent to Teams

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Post by Jedd »

lifescarcity wrote: post #62
Jedd wrote: post #16

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Do you mean the way that Microsoft hijacked open-parenthesis, and you can't choose a different character to trigger an emoji call?

https://youtu.be/2PYBj_VhvXg?si=eQogTv825zSyeBvX You can use :

aha - they've added colon.

I notice that ( still goes into emoji mode though.

So, the worst of both worlds. I should not be surprised. (And I am not.)

Re: Bring Your Agent to Teams

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Post by mexicocitinluez »

theshrike79 wrote: post #63
mexicocitinluez wrote: post #59

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> On Teams? Nope. Nope. Nope. What? https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/nonprofittechies/ho...

Did you even read it: > Click the name of the org you want to switch to. Teams will reload in that environment. or > Open teams.microsoft.com in a browser for one org while using the desktop app for another. How convenient! To check messages in a client Teams I just have to RELOAD THE WHOLE APPLICATION. Or just log in via multiple separate browsers or cereate a full-ass browser profile for each organisation. That's a…

So you think I didn't read your comment because you said "Nope, nope, nope" and I quite literally provided you with instructions on how to do it? That feels incoherent.

> To check messages in a client Teams I just have to RELOAD THE WHOLE APPLICATION

lol Where are you reading "reload the whole application"? It's literally a dropdown menu in the Teams application. It switches the tenant.

> That's a weee bit harder than hitting command-2...

Oh my god, clicking a single dropdown isn't a "weee bit harder". You're acting psychotic about this.

Re: Bring Your Agent to Teams

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Post by mexicocitinluez »

bob1029 wrote: post #51
theshrike79 wrote: post #36

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Try being a consultant who needs to have access to 2+ Teams accounts simultaneously. On Slack I can just press command - and I'm switching between client Slack accounts. On Teams? Nope. Nope. Nope.

I have 3 accounts in teams. Two are in client tenants and one is my personal. I haven't had any issues because I can't work on more than one customer at a time. I still get notifications from the other clients when I'm not actively staring at things. I could leave teams off all day and still be fine. The business requirements don't change that quickly in my part of the world. If you are doing 1099 for multiple custom…

You're arguing with someone who thinks clicking a dropdown and selecting a different tenant is the worst thing in the world.

Re: Bring Your Agent to Teams

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

x______________ wrote: post #48
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #20

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I know it’s NerdCool to hate on Teams, but I really don’t get it. I’m in Linux with portal for teams (electron app)… and it’s fine. Like, we moved to it from slack and I just don’t see much of a difference. I type stuff, and people see it. I set up a call and people join, we talk. What is it that is so broken, or is it just cool to hate?

Hate? Ever been forced to use production software with memory leaks in a corporate environment? 10s of thousands of employees needing to restart their computers every few hours or to live with sloggish computers, ruining so many billable hours, over a few years (this is only 1 company). Hell, I still keep my restart teams.bat I build to single click kill/restart the process cause of the trauma received from the time…

Ok, I guess what I find funny is that on Linux, I’ve had absolutely zero of those issues. Again, my version is the web via an electron app.

I suppose this is probably why MS seems intent on killing the app versions à la “New Outlook” and etc.

The most painful thing I can think of with Teams in years of Linux use has been I can’t upload more than 10 things at once, and notifications of meetings could be better.

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