Lync was such garbage. I used that for years at one of my old jobs. Teams just feels like discord with extra shittiness lol.
The worst part is that they had developed an in-house app that worked amazing but abandoned it for teams.
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orclev@lemmy.world 1 week agoYeah that was part of the brand reshuffling they did to obfuscate things. Lync was their shitty chat app they tried to convince businesses to use that everyone hated. They bought Skype, renamed it to Microsoft Teams, renamed Lync to Skype for Business, and killed MSN Messenger. When people still didn’t want to use LyncSkype for Business, then they killed that as well, and now it’s just MS Teams.
ShunkW@lemmy.world 1 week ago
caoimhinr@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Fun fact any developer working with the api can tell you, there is a clear distinction between de voip bit and the meeting/chat bit. They haven’t bothered rewriting or integrating it in any way so the Skype for business backend is still very much alive.
greybeard@lemmy.one 1 week ago
Another fun fact: On the backend, Teams uses SharePoint to store files, and Exchange to store message. The whole M365 stack is a house of cards built on ancient tech. It’s a wonder it works at all.