Rant warning!

I mean I just quit a office call, the share screen ribbon wouldn't disappear, opened task manager to kill it nope not found, finally had to select a "quit teams" option from start window. Note this is still windows 10.

Further the entire teams app is sloppy, when I start listing, the enter works but within the same message (when unintended) I have to ensure I click shift+enter to enter a new line. I can't choose between enter and shift+enter.

A few questions now:

  • why/how do these guys design a product this way
  • Does it mean Microsoft can keep running any app which necessarily doesn't appear on my task manager?
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[–] 0 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Teams exist because corporations are too cheap to purchase Zoom licenses.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Oh please..All Collaboration tools have the same number of issues, just different ones.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    Have you actually tried Teams? It stands above all the rest for number of issues. There are a lot of good ideas, but then it’s like they had a bunch of interns hack together the ui over a weekend and never fixed it

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Yes..

    I have used it daily for at least six years.

    Overlayed on that is I have used WebEx for about 15 years, hell maybe 20 years.

    I agree that it has UI has issues, so does Webex, so does Zoom… hell Skype had its issues as well.

    There is a lot about teams I don’t like, but that is every collaboration tool I have ever used.

    Truth be had the only collaboration tool I have ever been satiated with is the tool my university used back in 2000, but that probably had more to do with not having to drive to class.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Maybe the real issue is the idea of a “collaboration tool”. You could argue the only such ambitious tools I’ve tried are lotus notes and Microsoft Teams, and both were horrible: lots of services but in an ugly ui with poor usability. Teams had unreliable phone and notes didn’t have it at all.

    It’s much better dealing with a set of tools containing better implementations of the feature you want. Maybe it’s just not useful trying to cram that much functionality into one tool.

    And yes I’ll name names, I currently get much better results from

    • zoom for calls (especially with their generated summaries!)
    • slack for texting
    • files in a variety of tools specific to the need
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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    You are absolutely correct. That they aer bundling the different software is why it will lack.

    If a tool bundles up 10 components and then you poll ten people all they have to do is not like one of those components for the whole bundle to lack.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Have you ever used Zoom and then be forced to switch to Teams?

    It's like enjoying a warm baguette and then being forced to give it up and eat stale Sara Lee.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I have been forced to switch to different collaboration tools and platforms a number of times and it always just sucks…

    For me that pain began back when I was forced to stop using AIM ( America Online Instant Messenger).

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