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Has anyone had a good experience with Microsoft's online products? I tried using Office 365 recently for a small side project after using Google apps for years

by capybara_2020 4y ago

Has anyone had a good experience with Microsoft's online products? I tried using Office 365 recently for a small side project after using Google apps for years. Their email has like 5-10 messages come in every day about hotfixes, updates etc. Even after turning everything off, I still get a few emails from them every few days. Missed important emails in all that noise. Outlook randomly decided to delete all my emails on my phone for some reason. I had to relogin and resync everything. Did not even realize this had happened and did not realize till a week later that I again missed a few important emails. Lets not even get into Teams. Works only on Edge on a Desktop. Plus, starting a meeting seems to be rocket science. Still have not figured out how to blur the background in Teams. Let me not even get started on Onedrive, the 1TB free storage is what drew me to try them out. Problem is 10MB took 1 hour to sync. How hard can syncing be...Google does it, Dropbox does it without any issues on Windows. But Microsoft cannot... Sorry for the rant, but MS literally made me kill that side project and I am bitter about it. I just cannot figure out how it can be this bad and how MS is still surviving.

mbesto 4y ago
If you have been historically comfortable with MS Outlook, then O365's email service is far superior in every imaginable possible over GSuite...with ONE big exception of the web interface. But alas, I don't need a web interface for an application I might use 12hrs/day. Teams/OneDrive is hot garbage.
- imperialdrive 4y ago
  Eh hem... spam functionality tho? It's a killer, and Google has it down pretty well for obvious reasons.
  - prepend 4y ago
    I’m pretty happy with 365’s spam filtering. I get fewer spam messages through my work using 365 than my personal using gmail.
  - seabriez 4y ago
    Not sure how true that is, considering that Google literally places "Sponsored" messages in your inbox.
kyawzazaw 4y ago
Never has any of these problems at my corp.
hamstrung 4y ago
I can't tell if you're astroturfing, but just in case you're not, your problems are pretty easy to fix. To blur your background on Teams, go to background options while on a call. Click 'Blur'. Here are the steps if you get confused on the way: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-your-background-for-a-teams-meeting-f77a2381-443a-499d-825e-509a140f4780 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-your-backg... To start a meeting, either generate a meeting in the Calendar and it'll add a Teams call link in, or under the Calendar click 'Meet now' in the top right corner.
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imperialdrive 4y ago
Used it heavily for years across many orgs. Everything you describe only begins to touch on how terrible it can be. You are lucky to not figure out the blur mode in Teams bc it will bring the MS Surface line to a grinding halt in many cases. It sucks, but they also support many business needs, so 'we' stick with it. If only they could streamline a little, fight the bloat, slowly make things better.

mbesto 4y ago

If you have been historically comfortable with MS Outlook, then O365's email service is far superior in every imaginable possible over GSuite...with ONE big exception of the web interface. But alas, I don't need a web interface for an application I might use 12hrs/day. Teams/OneDrive is hot garbage.

imperialdrive 4y ago
Eh hem... spam functionality tho? It's a killer, and Google has it down pretty well for obvious reasons.
- prepend 4y ago
  I’m pretty happy with 365’s spam filtering. I get fewer spam messages through my work using 365 than my personal using gmail.
- seabriez 4y ago
  Not sure how true that is, considering that Google literally places "Sponsored" messages in your inbox.

kyawzazaw 4y ago

Never has any of these problems at my corp.

hamstrung 4y ago

I can't tell if you're astroturfing, but just in case you're not, your problems are pretty easy to fix. To blur your background on Teams, go to background options while on a call. Click 'Blur'. Here are the steps if you get confused on the way: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-your-background-for-a-teams-meeting-f77a2381-443a-499d-825e-509a140f4780 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-your-backg... To start a meeting, either generate a meeting in the Calendar and it'll add a Teams call link in, or under the Calendar click 'Meet now' in the top right corner.

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imperialdrive 4y ago

Used it heavily for years across many orgs. Everything you describe only begins to touch on how terrible it can be. You are lucky to not figure out the blur mode in Teams bc it will bring the MS Surface line to a grinding halt in many cases. It sucks, but they also support many business needs, so 'we' stick with it. If only they could streamline a little, fight the bloat, slowly make things better.