That final one drives me crazy. My boss will respond to every email with a thank you. Why?
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SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 3 months ago
I hate it so much. I always say “I just assume you all see my screen, as you can see…”. Screen sharing works in what? 99% of cases? We do not need to ask if everyone can see my screen and let 1-10 people answer that stupid question. The modus operandi is that this software works in the vast majority of cases and the recipients just need to know that I started sharing my screen and that it will in 99% of cases work just fine. Let them speak up for the 1% of times where it does not work.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
BossDj@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Outlook has a little emoji response feature. We seem to have taken to dropping a thumbs up for confirmation, heart for thank you, laugh when joke happens, etc. Works great
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 3 months ago
thank you for posting this comment! 😊
Jako301@feddit.de 3 months ago
It works 95% of the time but it often takes 10+ seconds until everyone can see the screen.
I get your point, but teams is such a broken mess that I think the question is legitimate. Half the time it doesn’t even register my microphone even if Windows doesn’t have a problem with it.
agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 3 months ago
Honestly, Teams works pretty much flawlessly for me. It’s a resource hog and some actions (like switching between tabs) are inexcusably slow, but it works pretty well 99% of the time.
glimse@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Maybe it’s because I have a pretty beefy work laptop but I rarely have issues with Teams. I dread Zoom calls, though. The video quality seems worse and whatever noise reduction Teams has doesn’t seem to exist on Zoom so it sounds bad, too. Not to mention the ugly interface
That said I’ll take Zoom over webex any day. Thankfully Cisco is the only company I work with who uses it… And we make them use Teams when we host there meeting
Kallioapina@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s funny, I’ve very recently had pretty much the opposite experiences with the Teams/Zoom reliability.
I had and interview project, and and in about 50% (around 15 out of 29-31, something like that) of the cases Teams calls failed pretty much in the beginning due to some technical problem, almost always the problems coming from the other end, on 1 case something unexplainably went to shit on my end (suddenly no sound or video), and I think of my self being pretty tech savvy on the user side. We had to fall back to phone calls for those “It’s just Teams, no problems, I understand” cases.
In the Zoom calls, 5/5 worked without issues.
Wonder why this is such recurring issue. I mean, havent Microsoft poured hundreds of millions of euro/dollars into the app/infrastructure? Where is the money going?
ceiphas@feddit.de 3 months ago
Fun Fact, Teams under Linux works way better than under Windows…
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
The PWA? Shouldn’t it work the same everywhere?
ceiphas@feddit.de 3 months ago
No, the arch package, i think they use the Debian one.
veng@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I tried it about 2 years ago and it was a fucking omnishambles on Linux. I presume it has improved since then…
ursakhiin@beehaw.org 3 months ago
My whole dev group uses Linux and Teams is a hot mess for us. We have to run the PWA through Chrome to get things to work and even then it’s hit or miss.
survivalmachine@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Wait, what? I thought they killed Teams for Linux a few years back. I’ve been piping my Webcam to a Windows VM just so I can run Teams and Outlook.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Could teams run in waydroid? That would be a bit lighter if it could.
ceiphas@feddit.de 3 months ago
the AUR teams for arch works fine for me…