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Turns out even Microsoft can't get Teams to work.
by jbm 1y ago
Turns out even Microsoft can't get Teams to work.
- boringg 1y agoThis kind of commentary is more appropriate for Reddit but in this case I approve.
- boringg 1y agoAlso -- why is Teams such trash? It can barely fulfill its core responsibility.
- PUSH_AX 1y agoHas Microsoft built anything in the last decade that isn’t of questionable quality/user experience?
- yifanl 1y agoThere's no question to the quality of Copilot.
- fuzzy2 1y agoIs there? And which Copilot is that? Github? Office 365? Windows? Yet another?
- EvanAnderson 1y agoObligatory link to my comment re: Microsoft product naming and the discussion that followed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40419292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40419292
- PUSH_AX 1y agoI was under the impression GitHub built and maintained that, but perhaps that’s changed… If not I wouldn’t consider it a Microsoft built product like windows etc (yes I’m aware ms owns gh)
- lawlessone 1y agoeveryone that contributed a project to github built it.
- plorkyeran 1y agoI genuinely don’t know if you mean “it’s unquestionably bad” or “it’s unquestionably good”.
- margalabargala 1y agoI'm sure there are some people out there somewhere who haven't tried it and so still think it could be good.
- chollida1 1y agomost people like vs code and lots of companies have built on top of it so there must be some quality there that people like.
- groby_b 1y agoIt's more that there isn't a single credible alternative. So, winning by default, not by merit.
- lovich 1y agoThe editor itself, Monaco, is nice enough and I’ve built some browser based ides, with it. Clientele consisting of primarily data scientists seemed to enjoy it
- cjbgkagh 1y agoBut it didn’t win by default, it beat out the other alternatives, sublime and a GitHub editor (prior to acquisition). VS Code (Monaco at the time) was developed by a small team largely in secret to keep it safe from other MS departments so it’s really not like other MS software. It has been safe from meddling for a while there is a chance it’ll be a victim of its own success.
- nikanj 1y agoIt's from the modern "rewrite it in Electron every 6 months" arm of Microsoft, not the "With a clever manipulation of the registers, we can eke out another 4 bytes of saved memory" arm of Microsoft. The former has been winning for years, but the latter also exists inside the company. See Raymond Chen for a classic example of the deep technical skill inside MS
- mystraline 1y agoThats because Teams is just a frontend to SharePoint Online. SPOL is even worse a tirefire than, say, even Lotus Notes. And it's in Electron on top of that, so its 10x slower than a real non-browser application. Ive only rarely seen Microsoft put out actual good software. The last time was Windows 2000. Now, that was some quality software.
- pragma_x 1y ago> a frontend to SharePoint No wonder they just tossed Skype in the trash. This explains so much. > SPOL is even worse a tirefire than, say, even Lotus Notes. To be fair, Lotus Notes is what we had back in the mid 90's. There really wasn't much else like it. But comparing that today... (checks notes) ...oh. It's still a thing?! So, neither Lotus Notes (now "HCL Notes" apparently?) or SharePoint have any excuse being as bad as they are. There are a dozen other far more capable examples of this kind of technology. I'm routinely amazed at how bad MS' user experience continues to be, even with all the money and engineers at their disposal.
- adenner 1y agoYeah in the end teams is an electron based view of SharePoint in a trench coat pretending to be a chat program and so much more
- 6c696e7578 1y ago> The last time was Windows 2000. Now, that was some quality software. It was good, but IIS had some faults, can't remember what, they wanted to replace it quickly with 2003. There isn't much wrong with Windows XP, objectively speaking.
- mystraline 1y agoPrior to iis 9, if you use the GUI to change a SSL cert of a site, it would change ALL sites to that cert. You had to use powershell iis commandlet to change per site. The newest IIS finally fixed that.
- carstenhag 1y agoI used to say the same, but now I have to use Slack + Gmail + Meet + Google Calendar + Drive + whatever else Google has. All of this has integrations into each other. Somehow a slack bot can show me calendar entries. Why I would even need such a broken UI/experience is unclear to me. I can't see when people usually work. Meet chats disappear once the meeting is over. At Teams/Outlook you have a million other issues, but all things considered, I preferred it.
- rincebrain 1y agoMy general assumption when I see something that insane is - some large enough customer had a workflow depending on that existing and it was built to sell them - someone wanted a visible feature to justify being promoted And in most cases, at least one of those is true.
- jbm 1y agoYeah, honestly my whole karma score is built from pithy comments about Teams. Thankfully it no longer crashes Chrome all the time, but everything else is meh. I still can't tag people in Japanese. The security settings are a trap for poor quality system admins and checkbox checkers. The meetings crash, the screen sharing only allows one way (so no easy pair programming), etc.. I much prefer working with slack and google meet like I did at my last job.
- rjsw 1y agoGiven that Teams doesn't work in anything other than Chrome, I would hope that it didn't crash all the time.
- jbm 1y agoBut it did crash Chrome all the time. I started runnung it in a VM so it would be less annoying when it crashed
- cesarb 1y ago> Given that Teams doesn't work in anything other than Chrome That's news to me; I use Teams on Firefox every work day and I see no issues (other than it being one of the very few sites which need third-party cookies to work, but recently Firefox has made it easier to add an exception for a single site like Teams).
- jbm 1y agoI used to use Teams w/ Firefox but the lagging and other issues with video calls led me to using Chrome. Is that still an issue?