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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 15 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)
[–] bollybing@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

As if there's a single lead developer behind MS Teams. There's probably like 100+ devs working on it in a dozen teams or more.

Do you think the Microsoft Teams team uses Microsoft Teams in their teams to develop Microsoft Teams?

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Bruh it was a placeholder cuz it took me a sec to find the meme lmao

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Out of curiosity are any similar products actually good? My company uses Webex and frankly I'd rather use teams.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

Slack is better than Teams IMO, but I don't know if I'd call it "good."

[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 1 points 22 minutes ago

Zoom and Google Meets have both worked better for me.

My company switched from WebEx to Teams and while Teams is not great it's way better than WebEx.

Within my actual team we just use Slack Huddles unless we have to record. For my personal stuff I prefer Jitsi.

[–] 7toed@midwest.social 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I dont know.. SharePoint has pissed me the hell off too, its a close one

[–] Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Fun fact, teams backend is sharepoint. It's just a fancy wrapper on top 🤡

[–] 7toed@midwest.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Well now I just feel bad for the team behind teams 🤣

[–] nogare97@lemm.ee 16 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Since I have not seen anyone mention this problem yet: Teams doesn't let you mute other people in a call for yourself. Obviously also no volume control per person. Imagine sitting next to your coworker in a teams meeting and having to deal with hearing them twice with like 20 ms delay. Awful.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What other video call apps let you do that? Teams lets you mute others for everyone, and I do that semi-regularly for the exact reason you cited.

[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

In my experience, neither Slack nor other apps (that all blow Teams out of the water) can do that - except Discord, which isn't exactly a common office meeting app.

[–] Diddlydee 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I use it daily and think it's excellent. Skype, on tnge other hand, is diabolical.

🌈You’re insane💫

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

I no longer work with corporations, but an online ornithology classI did used teams. It worked, mostly, for a while. Then one day it decided that video would no longer work on my machine. Of course there's no obvious log or anything.

I even booted windows to see if it would fix it, but no.

That was on a very exotic yoga 7 pro laptop.

It's the only piece of software that's ever behaved that way.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 18 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

No, no! Dogshit sometimes fertilizes and promotes growth. Microsoft teams is poison.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago

For the budding gardeners who might see this, do not use dogshit as fertilizer for the plants you eat.

[–] dufkm@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Hey, poison has it's uses too, unlike Teams.

[–] Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

I can’t believe we still can’t moderate chat in a public webinar…. « Hey the guy who wrote ‘FUCK’ 20 times? Yeah you can kick him out, but make sure to keep these messages visible for all posterity »

Can’t send private messages to outsiders also. Who could EVER need this in a public event anyway?

And make sure you can’t let people join the breakout room of their choice. Take the time to individually assign them one by one before the meeting! Fun!!

Hey at least we can play Backgammon in a meeting, so there’s that right?

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Genuinely the single worst messaging app I've ever used. Worse than Skype, which is crazy because Microsoft owns that too.

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 3 hours ago

and Skype was worse than MSN Messenger. I'm still upset they killed off the better product.

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 20 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

I don’t care. I’ll take anything that maintains staff meetings from home. Before COVID they were 90% in person.

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[–] remon@ani.social 21 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I have a Jabra Headset (now retired) that literally has a MS Teams logo on the side and is market as "Teams compatible". As you might have guessed, Teams is the only VC app were I regularly have to switch betwen inputs to get the headset to work during a call.

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