That’s all.

EDIT: Thank you all for detailing your experience with, and hatred for, this miserable product. Your display of solidarity is inspiring. Now, say it with me:

Fuck Microsoft

  • originalucifer
    40•1 month ago

    i hate ms with every fiber of my being, but teams has gotten better. it used to be practically unusable. now its just mostly so

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      16•1 month ago

      There’s a huge Teams outage right now. I have to use it at work and it makes me want to jump face first into a wood chipper.

    • Admiral PatrickEnglish
      9•1 month ago

      We used to use it before switching to Google Workspace (don’t get me started on how much I hate that), and Teams wasn’t too bad. But it had two things going for it then:

      • It was replacing Skype for Business which never should existed because it was so awful. Compared to SfB, literally anything was an improvement.
      • At the time, it was basically a Slack clone that didn’t have everything and the kitchen sink bolted on yet and was decently lightweight if you used the browser version.
      • @[email protected]English
        6•1 month ago

        I’m still convinced the turning point was when Microsoft deprecated Skype for Business and merged the devs from that team with the ones working on Teams. My tinfoil hat theory is they brought their garbage Lync code with them and pulled seniority to somehow jam it into the new codebase.

      • NegativeNullEnglish
        4•1 month ago

        Out of the frying pan and into the fire!

        To be fair, you are right about SfB. My previous job used that

        • Admiral PatrickEnglish
          4•1 month ago

          Maybe I’m remembering early/beta Teams with rose tinted spectacles, but at the very least the silver lining was that I no longer needed to keep a separate Windows machine running just for work IM.

          I even tried adding it to Citrix, but it refused to install on a server version of Windows.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•1 month ago

      I’ve had nothing but issues with it since their “upgrade” over the last year or so. It keeps cycling between the new and old versions when I open it, it often closes itself on my PC, and every time I try to pin it to my Taskbar it disappears.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•1 month ago

        The auto closing is driving me insane.

        I have 3 different computers I use on a daily and each of them encounter this issue multiple times each week. A meeting starts and I have to go start up Teams and wait for it to fully open to join the call. Or I have someone cold call me and I don’t get the call on my computer and won’t even after opening Teams.

        They can do a full refresh and release new features to make it look pretty but nothing has been done to address this issue that has been ongoing since day 1 of this “new Teams” refresh.

      • originalucifer
        3•1 month ago

        i had this exact issue until i wiped my machine this summer and it refreshed into a full win11 after the crowdstrike debacle

        • @[email protected]English
          2•1 month ago

          This is a shared workstation PC at my job so I’ll have to just continue to deal with it.