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The same Microsoft that squandered MSN messenger and Skype and then brought us the abomination that is MS teams?
by gardenhedge 3y ago
The same Microsoft that squandered MSN messenger and Skype and then brought us the abomination that is MS teams?
- hot_gril 3y agoThose are two messaging apps regular people can actually name, unlike all of Google's messaging apps. MSN Messenger survived 13 years supposedly. Skype was also a big thing for several years MS owned it. And I hate Teams personally, but lots of teams use it.
- antifa 3y ago> but lots of teams use it. I bet most team members who switched from Slack to Microsoft Teams do not feel like they consented or were asked for their opinions beforehand.
- hot_gril 3y agoThat distinction doesn't matter to Microsoft. Also it's funny how Google chat products once again go unmentioned... Their alternative is Chat (or idk, chat.google.com), and it's possibly even worse than Teams.
- antifa 3y agoI think Google chat(s)'s issue may be lack of features and marketing, Microsoft Teams is drowning with bugs, performance issues, poor UI/UX design, etc.
- hot_gril 3y agoI haven't used Teams enough to say, but Chat suffers from the latter things. UI keeps randomly changing in big ways, threading is confusing, there's serious lag just switching chats, takes forever to load, feature set is only on par with Slack circa 2015.
- godelski 3y agoThe same Microsoft that recently brought us "New Teams" and "New Outlook" and gave us a reskinned version of the same programs but now we have it installed twice?