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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

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[–] databender@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

You can't set alerts for availability. This is functionality that it used to have, but lost across updates. This is by itself is enough to relegate it to the compost bin.

[–] seth@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

all default purple theme apps are dog shit, and there are a lot of them. any graphic designer who chooses purple needs to be prevented from designing anything ever. i have to see that fake color a third of my weekdays and it takes a full weekend of spending time outdoors and seeing green to recuperate.

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[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Of all the meeting solutions, I’ve come to the conclusion that Google Meet is the least bad.

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[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week 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

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (7 children)

We user / have used Slack, Zoom, Meet/Gchat and a VERY brief trial of teams.

We have O365 AND Google Workspaces so we get teams and meet for free.

Zoom is the best to host a large meeting with a split presence. It's the best at dealing with variably poor connections. It shines on being able to share any specific app and sound control.

Meet is the best for small, low-friction meetings. However, it is hampered by its inability to share anything but browser tabs with sound, poor camera control, and poor user display.

Slack is a fantastic, too-flexible chat system with organizational issues. When it works, it works pretty well. However, it has intermittent video and mic problems on many systems. It is not good on poor connections and occasionally not good on fast connections.

Teams is bloated, many systems run it poorly, and there is an unacceptable amount of server-imposed downtime/issues.

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[–] aviationeast@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (6 children)

So what do you prefer over teams? And why is it better?

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[–] NetherFalcon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago (14 children)

i just hate everything about micro$oft nowadays to be honest.. and i use and always will use linux mainly aswell cause of my hatred for windows in general

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[–] Kissaki@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Screen shared coding with 1 fps. Genius.

Can't even see animations, quick actions, or significant subtleties.

[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thank you! Finally someone has the guts to say this publicly

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[–] VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It may be crap, but it's a masterpiece compared to Skype for business.

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[–] manderson1701@infosec.pub 5 points 1 week ago

I think that’s a bit insensitive to dogs

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

It literally doesn't even function half the time.

[–] Javi_in_4k@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Am I the only one that prefers it to Slack?

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[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fuck everything about Microsoft products. The different licenses are a nightmare, the programs are shit, and "FUCK YOU FOR TRYING TO INSTALL A PROGRAM OR USE LOCAL STORAGE" seems to be the default.

Also I don't trust them not to be spying on users. But sure, every government job I've had we used the products.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

I chalk most of the shit that makes teams horrible, is closely related to electron and their whole web app as a desktop app bullshit.

Buckle up, because they're doing that same enshittification to outlook next. It's already begun. There's a "new" Outlook. FML.

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