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Platform my foot! I’ve always thought of Windows as the annoying OS that gets in your way...then my company started pushing MS Teams and now I have two huge ba
by AnonC 6y ago
Platform my foot!
I’ve always thought of Windows as the annoying OS that gets in your way...then my company started pushing MS Teams and now I have two huge barriers in getting work done. What choice of words can I use for it? Dumpster fire? No, that’s an insult to real dumpster fires.
Teams has been a continuously crashing app on my system. It disconnects from calls many a times, repeatedly crashes and restarts, uses a lot of RAM and brings everything else to their knees. I don’t even have many teams or channels or calls going on!
Recently when I searched for Teams using a lot of RAM and being sluggish, I saw several User Voice posts with complaints going on for years and it keeps getting fresh comments regularly.
Then there’s Microsoft ostentatiously having a knowledge base article about the memory use of Teams where it blatantly lies that Chromium (which Teams is using because it’s an Electron app) in Teams releases memory to other applications whenever the system is low on free RAM. I’ve only ever seen Teams strangle all other apps to die with out of memory errors! Funnily, the revenge is most visible on Edge (based on Chromium) and Brave (based on Chromium). It’s like that multiple Spider-Man meme!
I check for updates on Teams regularly, hoping beyond hope that it’ll improve. So far, hope has lost!