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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[–] 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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