Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist?

• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Have you actually tried Teams? It stands above all the rest for number of issues

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  • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yes…

    I have used it daily for at least six years.

    Overlayed on that is I have used WebEx for about 15 years, hell maybe 20 years.

    I agree that it has UI has issues, so does Webex, so does Zoom… hell Skype had its issues as well.

    There is a lot about teams I don’t like, but that is every collaboration tool I have ever used.

    Truth be had the only collaboration tool I have ever been satiated with is the tool my university used back in 2000, but that probably had more to do with not having to drive to class.

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Maybe the real issue is the idea of a “collaboration tool”. You could argue the only such ambitious tools I’ve tried are lotus notes and Microsoft Teams, and both were horrible: lots of services but in an ugly ui with poor usability. Teams and unreliable phone and notes didn’t have it at all.

      It’s much better dealing with a set of tools containing better implementations of the feature you want. Maybe it’s just not useful trying to cram that much functionality into one tool.

      And yes I’ll name names, I currently get much better results from

      • zoom for calls (especially with their generated summaries!)
      • slack for texting
      • files in a variety of tools specific to the need

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      • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You are absolutely correct. That they aer bundling the different software is why it will lack.

        If a tool bundles up 10 components and then you poll ten people all they have to do is not like one of those components for the whole bundle to lack.

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    • devolution@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Well that was a mic drop response. 😳

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• devolution@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Have you ever used Zoom and then be forced to switch to Teams?

  It’s like enjoying a warm baguette and then being forced to give it up and eat stale Sara Lee.

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  • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I have been forced to switch to different collaboration tools and platforms a number of times and it always just sucks…

    For me that pain began back when I was forced to stop using AIM ( America Online Instant Messenger).

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    • devolution@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You sound older than me here. I was only using AIM during college in the early 00’s.

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