That’s all.

  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Ah, they’re all crap.

    Came to Teams from Slack, some upsides, some downsides. It’s a corporate communication tool, I don’t use it because I think it’s beautiful and elegant, I use it because I get paid money to use it.

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    4 hours ago

    The biggest mistake was to make it a “hub” for all sorts of other uses in my opinion. It shouldn’t be browser based, it should be native and just focus on chatting and calls, that’s it. It could be so much faster and intuitive.

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    7 hours ago

    Unpopular opinion: I actually like MS Teams

    Look, I know this might get downvoted, but Teams is… actually fine? Yeah, it’s not perfect, but it just works. The best part is that everyone and their grandma knows how to use it because it’s the corporate standard around here.

    I can’t tell you how much time I’ve saved not having to do the whole “can you hear me? let me try reconnecting… oh wait try updating your browser” dance that happens with other platforms. My company recently switched to Google Meet and honestly? It’s been a downgrade. Teams might not be the coolest kid on the block, but at least I’m not spending half my meetings troubleshooting audio and video issues.

    • Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
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      4 hours ago

      I hate teams because it consistently doesn’t just work

      missed notifications, screensharing

      i have little use of it and it constantly breaks

    • kerrypacker@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      I went from teams/ms at another business to google at my current one. If they changed to Microsoft anything I’d burn the place down.

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      6 hours ago

      I haven’t really used any other platforms so I can’t really compare but I have encountered enough audio issues too. Especially with new Teams and bluetooth devices.

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        5 hours ago

        Same, Teams is terrible in terms of getting audio to work properly, our meetings still start with “can you hear me?” And often at least one person has to rejoin after pairing their bt headset again. But honestly everything else I’ve come across is even worse.

  • flashgnash@lemm.ee
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    4 hours ago

    As with all things in business, good enough is king

    I actually don’t mind it being web based, there are a lot of web based tools that run perfectly fine and don’t use that much resource

    Teams is generally stable for me running the pwa in Microsoft edge nowadays too

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    7 hours ago

    I work in IT. I think it’s popular because it’s “free”.

    With that said, I put up a picture on the office wall of a Swiss army knife with features like syringe, fire extinguisher, axe, etc and have it labeled Microsoft Teams. Yes, it can do 100 different tasks, fucking poorly.

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    8 hours ago

    The fact that me and a coworker can’t both share our screens at the same time is absolutely batshit. 1x1 collaboration isn’t even reasonable, nevermind anything more

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      4 hours ago

      They really need to fix that. I hate that. Not even 2009 levels, it just straight up sounds like a dial-up modem.

  • PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee
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    8 hours ago

    that is because theyre selling it to the business, not the end user. They dont give 2 fucks about your experience

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    10 hours ago

    “Your organization has blocked this action”

    I mean this is my work phone, and I’m trying to copy a customer’s phone number from a spreadsheet to the dialer, but thanks man.

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      7 hours ago

      For a long time, I would occasionally use my personal phone to check work email and Slack when I had to be out-of-office for an errand. They created a new policy last month that would force me to have a “work” profile on my phone if I wanted to continue using those apps. Fuck that. Instead I removed every work related app from my phone.

      “Sorry boss, I can’t check my messages while waiting at my doctor’s office anymore.Why? Oh, because IT policies won’t let me.”

        • wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          6 hours ago

          A lot of small to mid sized companies lack controls around personal device use. For many years we were actually encouraged by first-line managers to use personal devices to communicate when out-of-office. And yes, I always C my A.

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            If you have a work-profile that’s created through an MDM, your work-apps are isolated from the other parts of phone and your workplace can set restrictions on how those apps can interact with the rest of your phone. Clipboard sharing may be allowed or not, installing Apps on that profile by yourself may be allowed or not, certain WiFi Networks may be saved, you get the Idea. The benefit is that if you leave the company, they can just remove that profile remotely and both, you and the company you work(ed) for, can be sure that you don’t keep any work-related data on your phone. The benefit for you is that android gives you a toggle to switch all of those apps off, so if you’re on PTO you can just hit the switch and it’s silent.

            how do you CYA?

            get written permission to sign-in to your work-related accounts on your phone

    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
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      9 hours ago

      Not that I’m actually trying to defend MS/Teams (seriously, fuck ‘em both); but this is more due to IT Admin settings.

      We have similar in our company, that’s in place because we handle PIR data regularly and it’s meant to be a speed bump rather than full roadblock.

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    10 hours ago

    I keep a Teams tab and an Outlook tab opened in Firefox on Linux at work, and I feel like I have a better experience than most people using it on windows, which seems crazy.

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      10 hours ago

      Does your voice calling work ok in Firefox? My video calls start off ok but always seem to drop out after a short bit. I wonder if it’s Firefox or my 30 privacy and security extensions lol

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        9 hours ago

        Yeah, our daily stand ups are via Teams (international team too) and it works pretty smoothly.

        One oddity I’ve noticed is that when working from home and on (fast) Wi-Fi, it will hang for a moment and say the connection has an issue, but then be fine for the rest of the call. When I’m in the office in don’t think I’ve seen it do that.

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        9 hours ago

        Oh fuck yeah. Skype used to throw errors when the advertisements scripts didn’t run correctly. I remember getting dozens of pop ups when the ad changed to something new. To my knowledge, they haven’t put ads in Teams, yet. They first need to kill the competition a bit; really set the hook before they reel you in.

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      10 hours ago

      Skype was a steaming pile for sure, but it had the ability to search for and message a distribution group and get an answer from whomever was available and I could pin it for future use. Now I have to know every name in a group and message them individually until I find someone to help or start a meeting to get everyone at once. It may just be how our Teams instance is configured, but I miss that feature. And who decided there should be a limit on how many people I can pin in Teams?

      • clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world
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        7 hours ago

        I mean, Skype now is just a turd. I guess it was given to interns as an exercise and as a way to force people to use other solution. But teams also suck, in its own particular way as you described

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    14 hours ago

    I was expecting a detailed rant, including an example or two. “That’s all” is much, much funnier.