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I dont understand how a multi-billion dollar corp can make a application as bad as Teams for Linux. Its actually amazing how any PM allowed the release of an a
by NikolaeVarius 5y ago
I dont understand how a multi-billion dollar corp can make a application as bad as Teams for Linux.
Its actually amazing how any PM allowed the release of an application as shitty as Teams. Does MS not dogfood their own applications so that their own Devs are forced to deal with the consequences of the abomination they have created?
- zibzab 5y agoSkype for business had a similar issue with screen sharing on Windows.
- hammyhavoc 5y agoBecause they want you to move to Windows and proclaim how much better Teams is within the Microsoft ecosystem. The goal is making sure that enterprise doesn't like Linux desktops.
- alexfromapex 5y agoFrom a source claiming to be a MS insider[1], reason number 2 for docx was possibly to make Word docs hard to render properly outside of Word. I remember how easy switching to Linux would have been years ago if OpenOffice (LibreOffice) would just properly save and open Word docs. Same dirty tricks they have been using for decades to sabotage competition. I think Firefox had some issue recently with them treating Edge preferentially too. Really need some antitrust probes. [1] https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Microsoft-create-the-Open-Office-XML-format-docx-xlsx-pptx?top_ans=1561962 https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Microsoft-create-the-Open-Offi...
- HomeDeLaPot 5y agoMaybe the Linux version is just there to check the "cross-platform" box.