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[–] manmachine@lemmy.world 110 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Was there ever a MS Teams feature anyone actually liked? Seems like the whole product is based on loathing.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Teams isn't made for the users.

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

I can't for the life of me figure out who it is for.

[–] lemongarlic@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Features Microsoft wants to push and features companies want. It's widely used because IT departments can just buy Office 365 and have all of the office apps and support for however they're hosting the rest of their office 365 apps but that doesn't mean it's good

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago

Teams is a part of Office365. It has been widely utilized in corporate establishments.

Doubt any mere mortals would use it as their primary way of communication.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 6 points 11 hours ago

Management wanting to track your activity, Microsoft wanting your data,...

[–] br3d@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Good to remember that the client for Teams isn't you - it's your IT department

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Lol, are you kidding? IT gets to experience the suck of using it, and of administrating it. For as bad as the front end of Microsoft stuff is, the back end is usually worse.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Wtf are you on about administering teams is braindead

[–] scops@reddthat.com 41 points 1 day ago

No, it's upper management. I don't give a fuck what you're doing all day as long as it doesn't create security vulnerabilities in the environment

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It’s for CSuite that doesn’t wanna pay for slack but sees teams bundled in office and says “good enough”

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

Well to be fair slack is quite expensive, and getting worse every year. Both in price and usability.

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They recently cribbed the Catch Up feature directly from Slack. I’m a big fan of that. Come up with a good feature on their own? Nah.

[–] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, that has been Microsoft’s MO for their entire existence. With the exception of maybe some versions of Visual Studio, everything they have done was see what they can copy off their competitors.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 23 hours ago

Wasn’t the original Visual Studio just Borland Turbo C++ with a non-ascii GUI?

[–] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If your whole ecosystem is in azure, it kind of works. Similar to gsuite

[–] twack@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

... For the admin. It's easy for the admin. That's not the users.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I bet some employers love that shit. They are Microslop Teams‘ main customers. Making our life miserable is a feature.