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I wonder if this is a result of various ways microsoft software is trying to force users to login to a microsoft account. If so the problem will be systemic as

by midjji 5y ago

I wonder if this is a result of various ways microsoft software is trying to force users to login to a microsoft account. If so the problem will be systemic as the microsoft programmers will be in an ongoing battle to disable as much unrelated stuff as possible.

llampx 5y ago
Can you use MS Teams without a MS account?
- tjoff 5y ago
  Every once in a blue moon you get logged out and need to log in again. Teams seem to cache some stuff and not others so in that case behavior isn't exactly intuitive. I am not the least surprised that it trigger crashes.
  - organsnyder 5y ago
    Or if your account is deleted (such as when you leave a company), I could see this happening.
- cure 5y ago
  Not last time I tried. That flow (i.e. you are not part of/logged into an institutional Teams account) is completely broken. Teams makes you go create a free Microsoft account, which then doesn't work to log into Teams.
  - midjji 5y ago
    Its almost like microsoft utterly fails to understand why zoom dominated... Its strange how many companies believe their own lies about anything requiring an explicit account being a good idea...
- ddingus 5y ago
  On Mobile, I do it with a browser "Show Desktop Version" and click on the "Continue on this browser" option. This is only an option when one doesn't need to fully participate in Teams, which is the case for me. I do not currently use a Microsoft account for anything. I have one, and once in a while, I log in with it for some reason or other. Everything else is a Office 365 account tied to an email provided by the people funding that access. For me personally, using OSS gets the job done for all my computing needs otherwise.
OneLeggedCat 5y ago
Reading through the reddit threads, yes, that seems to be exactly what happened. Without being logged in to MS Teams, dialing 911 caused the phone's calling function to crash.

by midjji 5y ago

llampx 5y ago

Can you use MS Teams without a MS account?

tjoff 5y ago
Every once in a blue moon you get logged out and need to log in again. Teams seem to cache some stuff and not others so in that case behavior isn't exactly intuitive. I am not the least surprised that it trigger crashes.
- organsnyder 5y ago
  Or if your account is deleted (such as when you leave a company), I could see this happening.
cure 5y ago
Not last time I tried. That flow (i.e. you are not part of/logged into an institutional Teams account) is completely broken. Teams makes you go create a free Microsoft account, which then doesn't work to log into Teams.
- midjji 5y ago
  Its almost like microsoft utterly fails to understand why zoom dominated... Its strange how many companies believe their own lies about anything requiring an explicit account being a good idea...
ddingus 5y ago
On Mobile, I do it with a browser "Show Desktop Version" and click on the "Continue on this browser" option. This is only an option when one doesn't need to fully participate in Teams, which is the case for me. I do not currently use a Microsoft account for anything. I have one, and once in a while, I log in with it for some reason or other. Everything else is a Office 365 account tied to an email provided by the people funding that access. For me personally, using OSS gets the job done for all my computing needs otherwise.

OneLeggedCat 5y ago

Reading through the reddit threads, yes, that seems to be exactly what happened. Without being logged in to MS Teams, dialing 911 caused the phone's calling function to crash.