Know the signs
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For me is the low bar of quality assurance. It is so incredibly filled with bugs.
Wrong connection status, inconsistent connection status, sometimes decides to not receive any calls and ghost missing calls are a daily ocurrence in my group. Literally any of these bugs will happen 5+ times a day.
I'm also convinced it is the reason my Win10 install got borked and had to reinstall the whole OS.
When I worked at Boeing, for reasons that are completely unknown to me, they had features of some products (including Teams) disabled and were running versions that were quite behind. And it occurred to me that some people experience the tech this way. I wonder if that is happening for others who have negative experiences...
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Microsoft anything, really
OneDrive/SharePoint is worse than Teams. fight me
ofc I would never say I love Teams
“[…] I love Teams”
- mrgoosmoos, 2025
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Microsoft: hold my beer!
wrote last edited by [email protected]I know, right? Ballmer was batshit crazy but at least you could squint your eyes and his decisions kind-of made sense (e.g. Windows 8 was a turd, but you could at least see what he was trying to do). Nadella has just shoved in cloud and now AI bullshit since he took over, and no thanks.
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Microsoft anything, really
OneDrive/SharePoint is worse than Teams. fight me
ofc I would never say I love Teams
They have been fucking with Outlook trying to force everyone to use Onedrive. It is really annoying.
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Microsoft anything, really
OneDrive/SharePoint is worse than Teams. fight me
ofc I would never say I love Teams
The multibillion dollar company I work for hosts literally everything on Teams and OneDrive. We absolutely have the capacity for storage on-site, we absolutely have the capacity to spin up our own cloud. They just do it this way because "well it's already there".
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Microsoft anything, really
OneDrive/SharePoint is worse than Teams. fight me
ofc I would never say I love Teams
MS DOS was nice. Nothing special, but definitely not shit.
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When I worked at Boeing, for reasons that are completely unknown to me, they had features of some products (including Teams) disabled and were running versions that were quite behind. And it occurred to me that some people experience the tech this way. I wonder if that is happening for others who have negative experiences...
wrote last edited by [email protected]Often times it is because of limitations beyond the control of MS. Like, in my company we use MS products because they are the standard. But we have to work with the vendor and IT to selectively disable a group of features and updates. Because we are very secretive and confidentiality is paramount for very good reasons, it has nothing to do with trade secrets, it is about protecting people. Nothing can leave our servers, no telemetry, no AI, no automated cloud backups, no summary, no bots on meetings, no transcriptions, none of the usual crap they are constantly pushing for. Salesmen look at us like we are aliens, but it's either that or we can't do our job well. As a result, we are often left with lobotomized versions of the same apps. But at the same time, it shows how little those feature are actually useful or necessary. And in particular, how they are a prime point of failure and bugs.
Our Teams still fucks up connections from time to time. But it is usually because it forgets it is neutered and tries to do something it isn't supposed to do and our VPNs nuke the connection. Like trying to call MS instead of our servers for telemetry, or trying to spin the module for a feature that doesn't exist in our network. Then it becomes very obvious how buggy and ungraceful the whole app is. It can't fail gracefully, it just craps itself and drags the whole computer with it.
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The first one can also just be a sign of ventriloquism, though.
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Confirmed hilarious by an actual stroke victim.
lol! You had a stroke!?
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At this point, any file you store in Windows is temporary only. Backup it to your phone if you want to be sure.
And, of course, neither of them is private. Expect them to be sent to everybody you know with your name attached.
Every single file you put in onedrive is stolen by m$ to train their shitty AI.
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I had hope for Microsoft when they came out with WSL and VS Code.
I was a fool, of course.
A lot of people agree VS Code is good though... I hate that.
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lol! You had a stroke!?
No, my wife. I ran it by her and got a hearty laugh.
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When I worked at Boeing, for reasons that are completely unknown to me, they had features of some products (including Teams) disabled and were running versions that were quite behind. And it occurred to me that some people experience the tech this way. I wonder if that is happening for others who have negative experiences...
In my case, nope, we run the most updated version. I've se en it update when I go to lunch.
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Onedrive is a nightmare.
Once made the mistake of keeping some personal photos in the 'pictures' directory of my own laptop.
Then started a course at uni, installed the free student version of MS365 or whatever it's called, including onedrive.
Next thing i know, I get a popup notification displaying the 'best of' my private photos on screen, while I'm showing colleagues something on my laptop!
I bought Windows laptops for my elderly parents a couple of years ago. The default screen saver was something that just showed a rotation of pictures. This seemed innocent enough until my parents started saving pictures on their computers ... and these pictures started showing up in the screensaver rotation, unbidden. They're far too old for this to have produced anything embarrassing, but jesus fucking christ Microsoft!
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It's so calming when it just decides to not get any new message for a day and starts removing meetings from your schedule...
Are you kidding? I would pay extra for these features.
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For me is the low bar of quality assurance. It is so incredibly filled with bugs.
Wrong connection status, inconsistent connection status, sometimes decides to not receive any calls and ghost missing calls are a daily ocurrence in my group. Literally any of these bugs will happen 5+ times a day.
I'm also convinced it is the reason my Win10 install got borked and had to reinstall the whole OS.
It is so incredibly filled with bugs.
I've had a number of programmer coworkers end up working for MS. They were without exception either a remarkable blend of incompetence and apathy, or wannabee product managers whose sole ambition was to never write a single line of code themselves ever again. I'm amazed that anything coming out of Redmond ever works at all.
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This is not the future we were promised. I never would have thought that we would have to be our own security experts to save ourselves from the companies we depend on.
not to be "the guy" ... but there are alternatives, surprisingly simple, if you just give it a try
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Often times it is because of limitations beyond the control of MS. Like, in my company we use MS products because they are the standard. But we have to work with the vendor and IT to selectively disable a group of features and updates. Because we are very secretive and confidentiality is paramount for very good reasons, it has nothing to do with trade secrets, it is about protecting people. Nothing can leave our servers, no telemetry, no AI, no automated cloud backups, no summary, no bots on meetings, no transcriptions, none of the usual crap they are constantly pushing for. Salesmen look at us like we are aliens, but it's either that or we can't do our job well. As a result, we are often left with lobotomized versions of the same apps. But at the same time, it shows how little those feature are actually useful or necessary. And in particular, how they are a prime point of failure and bugs.
Our Teams still fucks up connections from time to time. But it is usually because it forgets it is neutered and tries to do something it isn't supposed to do and our VPNs nuke the connection. Like trying to call MS instead of our servers for telemetry, or trying to spin the module for a feature that doesn't exist in our network. Then it becomes very obvious how buggy and ungraceful the whole app is. It can't fail gracefully, it just craps itself and drags the whole computer with it.
I feel jelous. My company should have the same attitude due to the nature of data it proceses, but is the opposite. I've found some serious vulnerabilities and the only repercusion was me getting silenced.
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not to be "the guy" ... but there are alternatives, surprisingly simple, if you just give it a try
Ha ha ha, I get what you're putting down. It's just another thing I have to deal with and I have no idea on how to start. You guys seem great, I just can't even begin to think about it. I'm procrastinating enough on my paid projects.
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So uh, what's everyone using these days to call internationally to cell phones or company landlines? Because teams looks like they've cut all that functionality for me, unless I'm just not understanding their dumbass interface.
