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Microsoft anything, really
OneDrive/SharePoint is worse than Teams. fight me
ofc I would never say I love Teams
- Onedrive is a nightmare.
  Once made the mistake of keeping some personal photos in the 'pictures' directory of my own laptop.
  Then started a course at uni, installed the free student version of MS365 or whatever it's called, including onedrive.
  Next thing i know, I get a popup notification displaying the 'best of' my private photos on screen, while I'm showing colleagues something on my laptop!
  
  They deleted pics I saved. I have everything in my own drives and shut one drive out of my computer. POS
  
  I bought Windows laptops for my elderly parents a couple of years ago. The default screen saver was something that just showed a rotation of pictures. This seemed innocent enough until my parents started saving pictures on their computers ... and these pictures started showing up in the screensaver rotation, unbidden. They're far too old for this to have produced anything embarrassing, but jesus fucking christ Microsoft!
  
  😳
  
  Personal photos, or personal photos?
- “[…] I love Teams”
  mrgoosmoos, 2025
  
  Cited like a true journalist
  
  hey you can't do that
- MS DOS was nice. Nothing special, but definitely not shit.
- The multibillion dollar company I work for hosts literally everything on Teams and OneDrive. We absolutely have the capacity for storage on-site, we absolutely have the capacity to spin up our own cloud. They just do it this way because "well it's already there".
- They have been fucking with Outlook trying to force everyone to use Onedrive. It is really annoying.

I've said that, and meant it, but it was when Teams first came out. At the time, it was just a bare-bones Slack clone with the alternative being the godawful Skype for Business. lol.
All they had to do was just stop making it worse from there.
- Microsoft: hold my beer!
  
  I know, right? Ballmer was batshit crazy but at least you could squint your eyes and his decisions kind-of made sense (e.g. Windows 8 was a turd, but you could at least see what he was trying to do). Nadella has just shoved in cloud and now AI bullshit since he took over, and no thanks.

Confirmed hilarious by an actual stroke victim.
- lol! You had a stroke!?
  
  No, my wife. I ran it by her and got a hearty laugh.
- Same, I giggled

Actual signs of a stroke for those who want to or should know: the acronym is FAST- face, arm, speech, time to call 911.
- Or FAST VAN if you want to be a first aid nerd.
  V - visual disturbance
  A - aphasia
  N - neglect (of use of body parts they would otherwise probably be using)
  
  This must be new because I have been first aid trained since I was 5.... I spent many recent years without renewing my certification, and I've heard of FAST, I've never heard of VAN, either independently or as an addition to fast.

I had hope for Microsoft when they came out with WSL and VS Code.
I was a fool, of course.
- A lot of people agree VS Code is good though... I hate that.
  
  It is a good text editor
- WSL is good though, whenever I am forced to use windows I install it.
- Microsoft has been good lately for every project they have been able to do from scratch, without needing to comply with backwards compatibility of their older crap.
  Teams is one of the projects that totally had to comply with their older crap. Along with pretty much the rest of O365.

So uh, what's everyone using these days to call internationally to cell phones or company landlines? Because teams looks like they've cut all that functionality for me, unless I'm just not understanding their dumbass interface.
- We never had the ability to make outside calls from teams, only teams to teams calls. We went from physical phones on desks to Cisco soft phone since lockdown.
  
  Got it. So basically micro$hit shut down Skype with nothing to replace it.
  
  I can call a phone number from Teams?
  If you are in a meeting just click "Invite People" and type a phone number - it will call them. We have the "Team for Business". Whatever that means.
  They will almost assuredly not answer because its an 800 Number, and requires them to press [n] to join call. But you can do it.
  If you don't have a meeting just make one with only you - Which is coincidentally a great way to fill a calendar, and look busy to your coworkers. They ignore Busy status. When I'm in a "meeting", it doesn't even ring when they bother me.

The first one can also just be a sign of ventriloquism, though.

But I do like MS teams
- Stockholm syndrome.
- Help is on the way. An ambulance will be at your location shortly.
- It's so calming when it just decides to not get any new message for a day and starts removing meetings from your schedule...
  
  Are you kidding? I would pay extra for these features.
- You and me are out there enjoying it (unless you are being sarcastic, then it's just me out there in ignorant bliss).
  I still don't get why people are so opposed (it's cheaper than the collection of apps required to do the same thing). The best reason I heard was it doesn't work well on Linux, which I'm like duh - they don't care about that demographic, like, at all. My best thinking is that maybe folks aren't using all the features. I mean, one of them is a voiced Copilot summary of a meeting done by a man and woman, like they are talking about the meeting at the water-cooler. Truly terrible and amazing all at once.
  
  For me is the low bar of quality assurance. It is so incredibly filled with bugs.
  Wrong connection status, inconsistent connection status, sometimes decides to not receive any calls and ghost missing calls are a daily ocurrence in my group. Literally any of these bugs will happen 5+ times a day.
  I'm also convinced it is the reason my Win10 install got borked and had to reinstall the whole OS.
  
  I use MS teams on Linux all day long for work through web browser (I think it's a PWA app?) and have no issues at all. I'm not saying I love MS teams but I am not running into any bugs with it. My only complaint is they used to have a 'native' Linux app that ran using something called electron that would allow for notifications in my desktop environment, whereas now in the browser I don't get those, but that didn't really end up being a problem.
  
  it's buggy as shit, that's why I don't like it
  I don't know what alternative there is for my company. I just know that Teams is crap, but not nearly as bad as whatever the fuck SharePoint/OneDrive is. except for the integration of the two with Sites, and how permission management is a goddamn nightmare
  and don't get me started on version history and the lack of options for how to set that up. nah, they'd rather force you to pay for extra storage because you're keeping 700 versions of a 50MB file from the past two weeks
  
  I love loops for day to day project management
- There is so much to like!
  I think my favourite is when you go through the files in a team then click "Copy link". It thinks, thinks, thinks, then when it's done it has a big green tick but doesn't actually copy the link until you click a second copy link button.
  But I do quite like how when you find the file you want and switch to a chat then it loses your place. And as far as I can tell, there's no way to bookmark a folder, which is great.
  Long story short I love how it tries to do everything instead of being good at one thing!
- It’s usually fine, but when it decides to be difficult it’s extremely frustrating. It’s pretty rare that it directly affects me, but it has happened. And for some of my coworkers it seems to be always acting up.
  That being said, I do love being able to walk my dog while on meetings with Teams on my phone.