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?
  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
    213·
    9 hours ago

    I quite literally teach and consult on Teams, and have for 8 years now. I worked with Lync, Skype for Business, and Communicator before that.

    People complain about it all the time, and yet… I’ve never had any significant issues with it.

    Other than M365 outages, which impact everyone, I’ve never seen it crash. I’ve never had issues not loading. I’ve never had sound or sharing issues that couldn’t be resolved by clicking the dropdown and selecting the correct option.

    It can be a bit slow, especially loading file related stuff, but it’s not any worse than a network drive.

    Placeholder avatars in different parts of the App? Teams doesn’t even support task assignment, tasks are handled in MS Planner which is an entirely different product that just happens to be visible inside Teams if you want.

    Touch? Mac? Airpods? What the fuck are you doing? You aren’t doing real business tasks if you’re using an iPad.

    Maybe the people with problems are the ones running 10 year old hardware with a barely supported operating system?

    • Pechente@feddit.org
      6·
      9 hours ago

      Touch? Mac? Airpods? What the fuck are you doing? You aren’t doing real business tasks if you’re using an iPad.

      I’m using it on the phone sometimes to reply to people which I don’t think is a weird use case. The AirPods issue happens on macOS and I’m not sure if you’re just ignorant but lots of businesses operate on macOS, especially in my industry (ui design, frontend web dev) it’s unusual to even see Windows.

      • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
        110·
        9 hours ago

        “lots of businesses operate on macOS”

        No, they definitely do not. If you go into any business in Canada or the US with more than 200 employees, they are running windows on the computers sitting in front of every office drone they have.

        Very specific industries or business may, especially those who are stuck on Adobe’s software, but “lots” is extremely far from the truth.

        • howrar@lemmy.ca
          3·
          7 hours ago

          go into any business in Canada or the US with more than 200 employees

          That’s like, 2% of businesses in Canada. Even if they all use Windows, it doesn’t prove the point that few businesses use MacOS.

          • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            34 minutes ago

            Total number of businesses maybe, but they account for something like two thirds of all employees.

            You can’t really say it’s much of a business IT stack if it’s just a single freelancer using a Mac.

            They wouldn’t be setting up teams in the first place.

            • howrar@lemmy.ca
              1·
              3 minutes ago

              If that’s what you meant to say, then it would help to actually say that. Regardless, the argument doesn’t hold water. If Teams has poor support for older hardware and non-Windows operating systems when other apps don’t, then that’s a Teams problem. If it takes someone who specializes in Teams to be able to work with it effectively when other apps require minimal training, then that’s also a Teams problem.