It’s not my number-one feature request, but the fact that you can’t put teams into groups in Microsoft Teams is a shame.
The mandate for this product really seems to be “Let’s encourage everyone to put their entire working life into this one app but not provide any affordances to find or navigate through any of it!”
Made the mistake of letting Microsoft Teams switch to the "New" version.
First strike: it doesn't respect Windows window management. No longer a "stay on top" or "visible on all workspaces" checkbox.
Worse, it froze up several times during the first attempted conference call, then crashed the entire machine. #Microsoft#Teams#EpicFail
I won't be allowing Microsoft Teams to run on my corporate laptop. Currently, the corporate line is "You will use Slack," and I'm going to hold my employer's feet to that fire.
I will need to be commanded to use Teams before I let it into my dominion. It is very abusive on the resources of my computer.
Had my first Jitsi teleconference (maybe ever?) yesterday on the https://meetingrooms.canwork.cloud server and I have to say everything Just Worked. Screen-sharing, juggling multiple windows, etc. Hmmm… maybe we don’t need Google or Zoom or Microsoft to talk to each other…
@WiseWoman@timbray We use #Jitsi in our company and meetings with approximately 140 ppl were no problems after we got a two server setup. I can't complain.
The only issues I get are with #Teams (nasty) and #WebEx (horror). Almost no experience with #Zoom yet (severe privacy issues).
#EU#Microsoft#Teams#Antitrust "However, the concession over Teams seems woefully late. Microsoft first bundled Teams with Office nearly seven years ago. It was seen at the time as an aggressive ploy to outflank Slack, on a par with the way it bundled its first internet browser into Windows to defeat browser pioneer Netscape.
Microsoft earlier this year said more than 300mn people use Teams at least once a month, meaning the damage has already been done and unbundling comes too late to prevent the market tipping in its favour. Nonetheless, the company has at least acted before having its arm twisted by Brussels, while at the same time opening itself up to other regulators around the world, who will now be pressing for similar concessions.
By comparison with its compromises over Activision and Teams issues, Microsoft faces a much tougher challenge in dealing with the complaints over cloud licensing. Research(opens a new window) carried out for CISPE(opens a new window), a European cloud computing industry group, claims to show Microsoft has squeezed billions of extra dollars out of its customers through its licensing terms."
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In the meantime, Microsoft has had over three years to completely destroy its competitors and take control of the market... Not because they had the best and/or cheapest solution, but because Microsoft, when the Covid pandemic hit, abused its dominant position and pushed Teams everywhere it could.
I have no idea who designed the UI for Teams, but it does so many weird and counter-intuitive things.
If you press the up key, you are suddenly editing the last comment you posted.
If you then press Esc, which I expect would cancel that action, nothing happens.
I have to pick up the mouse and click the small "X" button that also often gets overlayed by the popup menu, and then I have to press Discard in a modal dialog, even though I made no changes.
Ich finde das digitale Leben ziemlich anstrengend.
Aktuell erhalte ich regelmäßig Zoom-Links für Besprechungen zur zweit oder zu dritt per #Videokonferenz
Ich finde es lästig, dann immer mitzuteilen, dass ich #Zoom nicht benutzen möchte.
Wenn ich mit anderen darüber spreche, kommt oft die Behauptung, dass die freien Alternativen nicht richtig funktionieren (was ich bei einer so geringen Teilnehmerzahl nun wirklich nachvollziehen kann).
Wie kann ich mit solchen Situationen besser umgehen, ohne ständig dass Gefühl zu haben, mich dafür rechtfertigen zu müssen?
@sluecking Je nachdem, wie polemisch die Begründung sein darf, kannst du entweder auf die #BigBrotherAwards-Laudatio <https://bigbrotherawards.de/2023/zoom> verweisen oder auf die dort ganz unten als Quelle verlinkte Untersuchung des Bundeskartellamts in Zusammenarbeit mit dem @bsi:
Diese Untersuchung beschäftigt sich außer mit #Zoom auch mit anderem Murks wie z.B. #Cisco#WebEx und MS #Skype und #Teams. Wer sie genau liest, wird zu dem Schluss kommen, dass diese Produkte in der EU nicht legal einsetzbar sind. Die Studie empfiehlt quelloffene Lösungen wie #BigBlueButton und #JitsiMeet. /c
There was a study a short while back... on why groupware fails. CapGemini or Gartner Group... one of those? Accenture?
Anyway, as I recall the analytics lead to typical conclusions ... Objectives not well defined (lacking success measurement definitions) and scope creep (moving goal posts.)
My experience confirms that planning vacuums precede failures. E.g. Managers solving problems lacking clarity on what those are.
The single worst design feature of Teams (among many issues) is to convert underscores to italicised text. Especially when you communicate with programmers / DevOps all day!
Salut les mastos,
Il y a encore quelqu'un.e qui utilise MS teams ici ?
En effet, j'ai une visio avec #poleemploi, mais je ne veux pas installer ce malware sur mon PC. Je vais donc utiliser une machine virtuelle sous windob.Toutefois, je souhaiterais faire un test avant.
Quelqu'un serait-iel en capacité de créer une vision avec #teams, de m'envoyer le lien et de faire un essai de quelques minutes ?
Hanging around at #CCCamp23 drives home one point: If technology brings people together, it's not through shitty dysfunctional video surveillance tools like #Zoom, #Teams or whatever, but through common interests. Tech doesn't matter, people do. People may happen to be interested in tech, but then the reason why we build tech should still be people.
You know what there should be more of? defined tech teams. Not individual contractors. Not agencies. Defined teams of 4-6 people who always work together.