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- Comment on EU charges Microsoft with 'abusive' bundling of Teams and Office, breaching antitrust rules 5 days ago:
In the past few years, my workplace has used Webex, Zoom and Teams. I definitely hate that we’re using Teams now because the others are better when it comes to meetings. Teams is unusable for me half the time while the others just worked. Lag spike during the call? Now the microphone doesn’t work. Or it will work but no one can understand you while you talk.
- Comment on EU charges Microsoft with 'abusive' bundling of Teams and Office, breaching antitrust rules 5 days ago:
In my work machine, mine has a special feature when someone shares their screen during a call and you go full-screen - the extreme audio lag feature.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Teams started out okay. But the recent update made it worse. The microphone constantly disconnects now. Earlier today I lost sound completely just when I was being asked to talk. And the sound starts to get choppy during screen shares. I rarely had these issues with Webex and Zoom. So it’s not even more compatible with their own software. EU doesn’t have anything to worry about. /s
- Comment on Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts 6 months ago:
To their credit, at least they’re still trying to build stuff. Microsoft avoids this problem by no longer innovating and just buying into whatever is trending. (Not that Google also isn’t doing the same). If you never build anything new, you never risk killing a product that didn’t trend, which happens a lot.
- Comment on Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome 8 months ago:
That’s similar to what I thought their Xbox strategy was. The rich kid buys an entire store because he has no idea how to prepare things for a party(i.e., make games). He opted to just buy the entire store but he still has no idea how to throw a party (i.e., Xbox games like Halo are still dead and they still don’t have a good play test strategy the way Sony or Valve does so they keep releasing broken games). Xbox over the years slowly lost the formula to making great games to poor corporate management.
- Comment on Spotify re-invented the radio 8 months ago:
Good for you.
- Comment on Musk considers removing X platform from Europe over EU law - Insider 8 months ago:
I hear Zuck once threatened to pull Meta out of the EU too. Musk is a real man though. No joke, he can probably be goaded to do it, just like how he got baited into buying Twitter in the first place.
- Comment on Spotify re-invented the radio 8 months ago:
What? It takes 5 minutes to pop your new CD in the drive and let Windows Media player handle it for you, track information included.
- Comment on YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block users 8 months ago:
Youtube doesn’t run for free, but they can save more money by firing a few executives than go after the minority adblock users. It’s not the creators that really matter (but they’re the group of people who are visible and who we can relate to) but you would not be saying the same thing if they were totally honest and say they’re raising money so the executives can keep on “executing” and that investors can keep their short term profits.
- Comment on Spotify re-invented the radio 8 months ago:
Quantity over quality eh? I hope that doesn’t happen to subscription-based gaming.
- Comment on Spotify re-invented the radio 8 months ago:
We don’t rip CDs anymore so you can store them as MP3s on your phone? People have forgotten how to do that? I’m getting old.
- Comment on CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 | Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are "very excited." 8 months ago:
What are people’s predictions on what will happen to ABK after he leaves? Personally, I’ve never played COD and the last Blizzard game I played was Diablo 2, so I don’t know what they’ve been doing.
- Comment on POV) You use Windows 11 and set up Pihole for the first time. 8 months ago:
It’s always MS who has people on the internet defending them when they do it, to the point that it looks like MS social media presence is being carefully managed, like Apple. I saw it happen on Reddit too, and it happened less and less the more they got called out. The same “$70 a year for Office 365 is so worth it” is a talking point when I was on Reddit. Apparently, people here say the same thing.
- Comment on Windows 12 May Require a Subscription 8 months ago:
How would cooling our jets help? I really like the idea of going into Linux, and the more MS pushes the subscription/rental model, the more I’m encouraged to do so. Corporations like to float their ideas to the media as a way of surveying the market. These rumors could be just that. The idea of building a Linux PC sounds fun. I never had the need for any of these subscription services. I have a backlog of games I own, my own HDDs, MP3s, from CDs or the like, that I bought. I don’t need to pay yearly for those.