I'm incredibly grateful to my colleagues and IT department at work for allowing me to use zero Microsoft products.
I don't use Windows, Office, Teams, Outlook, Bing or anything made by Microsoft at all, both in my personal life as well as work.
Life is great!
What do you do?
We used teams instead of slack at a place I used to work because it's free. You know, kind of like how my coffee is free when I go to the window to collect it.
We use slack for some things and teams for some things at work. Can't say I really prefer one over the other. My dream is if we could just decide on one platform so I can find shit. Any of them!
Same here..
Microsoft bad has become a cliché. And that says a lot about how bad Microsoft is.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/21/microsoft_national_security_risk/ Classified as national security risk and doing way more shit afterwards (example Recall) tells way more.
Would be great if Europe finally decided to get off of Microsoft and move to self-hosted or EU-hosted, and EU-owned companies and datacenters that use opensource software. It's about time an entire continent stopped sucking on the teet of another and letting in parasites.
Wait, you don't know the sovereign EU cloud Gaia-x? Oh my, our German politicians have brought Amazon Microsoft etc on board.
All right.
Don't you know the plans for the sovereign Germany cloud made in Germany powered by Amazon Microsoft etc.
Ah oh shit.those bastards at Microsoft acquired Skype
And then it returns with thanking trump and co., and your first meeting has the unchangable title "a prayer for president trump".
Tragic.
Dang. There was a brief hope. Just for a moment. 😁
Aw man! 😮💨
What's so bad about it?
Teams pretends it's an app that can do a lot of things at once but for literally all of the things it pretends to be good at it is the worst possible choice.
At my office, it works flawlessly for what we use it for, which is video conferences and chat. We don't mess with the workspaces and stuff.
The only thing I truly hate about it is that you can't export a log of a chat. As a government worker, I'm waiting for the lawsuit over Open Records over the lack of that feature.
I only use it in the browser to join meetings because an external client uses it. But in my experience it's buggy whereas Slack and Zoom just work.
In the time that I was forced to use it, an entire team of Microsoft engineers could not get a Linux version working. It's a bloody website wrapped in a browser and they could not get it to work. A single dude made a linux package that just worked until Microshits messed that up right on time for their "official linux release", which (surprise surprise) still refused to work completely.
Linux users kept having trouble sharing screens, sharing files, couldn't add backgrounds to video calls, and a bunch of other stuff. For a while I thought it was just Linux users, but Mac users were also having trouble (this was before the M1s came along). Mac users had cameras that failed, sometimes couldn't see anybody else's video (just black), were inaudible and had to reconnect, and more issues.
I have friends who have to use office 265 and the amount of issues they run into is just phenomenal. Passwords have to be changed semi-frequently (every quarter or something) and sometimes they don't sync across the entire system. OneDrive has issues with symlinks (or whatever windows calls them) - either it's a Microshit problem or a user problem, I can't tell, but moving a symlink can sometimes move all the data too.
Not all the products seem to be properly connected like events created in calendars might not create team links despite configured to do so and only add a team link to the meeting when created within the desktop app (a bug known for a few years now). There have also been problems with OneDrive and SharePoint with access rights not being the same, some files missing (hidden or straight up not synced), and a bunch of other things.
I've had friends on "workation" walk into my room asking if I could help them with "this microsoft issue" and tell them to straight up ask their support, because I left that turdball of an ecosystem long ago.Boy am I glad I did.
That’s funny
Meta note, this is a great format for fake screenshots (partial dark mode to make it obvious)
For such an invasive piece of code (it seems to drop into my system with every major Windows Update), this would be a hilarious message to see.
This needs to become a thing
😭
