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Look at the history of past Microsoft chat products... and then name one they didn't run slowly into the ground and then replace with something else! - MSN Mes
by hooby 4y ago
Look at the history of past Microsoft chat products... and then name one they didn't run slowly into the ground and then replace with something else!
- MSN Messenger
- Windows Live Messenger
- Microsoft Office Communications
- Microsoft V-Chat
- Microsoft Lync
- Skype
- Skype for Business (nothing to do with Skype - completely different software)
- Microsoft Classroom
- Windows Meeting Space
- Microsoft NetMeeting
- Microsoft Office Live Meeting
etc.
Why would you expect Teams to fare differently?
- Sakos 4y agoMSN Messenger was great and significantly better than the abomination that is Teams. Was Teams ever good?
- rfqd 4y agoThere definitely was a point when I thought that, yes, this is a new product and it is looking good, give it another year or so to get the kinks out. But then they removed features they got right the first time, like fullscreen screen sharing with their New Experience. They also added more and more half-baked poducts with rapidly changing apis and the like. From then on I was convinced that they in fact didn't want to learn what Slack/Discord/etc. did right and just go their usual MS way.
- rjh29 4y agoMSN Messenger was good for a short period, then got increasingly bloated and horrible and I had to switch to alternative clients like Trillian. I remember someone released a hacked version of Messenger with all the bloat stripped out, too. I see what you mean though. I don't remember Teams ever being good.