Rant warning!

I mean I just quit a office call, the share screen ribbon wouldn’t disappear, opened task manager to kill it nope not found, finally had to select a “quit teams” option from start window. Note this is still windows 10.

Further the entire teams app is sloppy, when I start listing, the enter works but within the same message (when unintended) I have to ensure I click shift+enter to enter a new line. I can’t choose between enter and shift+enter.

A few questions now:

  • why/how do these guys design a product this way
  • Does it mean Microsoft can keep running any app which necessarily doesn’t appear on my task manager?
  • Pechente@feddit.org
    9·
    4 hours ago

    Seriously, teams is one of the worst apps I have to use on a regular basis. It’s insanely buggy, especially if you are a freelancer working in multiple teams.

    • parts of the app don’t load correctly
    • parts of the app don‘t support touch very well
    • you get useless notifications, i.e. for a thread you have open or an action you caused yourself but completely miss others
    • the UI has SO MANY flaws like giving people different colored placeholder avatars in different parts of the app which made me assign tasks to the wrong person a few times
    • it needs its own audio driver on macOS which is probably invasive and does a shit job with airpods

    There’s probably more I can’t think of right now but teams actively kills my productivity and I dread having to open it. I don’t understand how businesses can rely on this so heavily and I‘m wondering how incredibly incompetent the team developing it at Microsoft can be.

    • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
      19·
      4 hours ago

      I quite literally teach and consult on Teams, and have for 8 years now. I worked with Lync, Skype for Business, and Communicator before that.

      People complain about it all the time, and yet… I’ve never had any significant issues with it.

      Other than M365 outages, which impact everyone, I’ve never seen it crash. I’ve never had issues not loading. I’ve never had sound or sharing issues that couldn’t be resolved by clicking the dropdown and selecting the correct option.

      It can be a bit slow, especially loading file related stuff, but it’s not any worse than a network drive.

      Placeholder avatars in different parts of the App? Teams doesn’t even support task assignment, tasks are handled in MS Planner which is an entirely different product that just happens to be visible inside Teams if you want.

      Touch? Mac? Airpods? What the fuck are you doing? You aren’t doing real business tasks if you’re using an iPad.

      Maybe the people with problems are the ones running 10 year old hardware with a barely supported operating system?

      • Pechente@feddit.org
        4·
        4 hours ago

        Touch? Mac? Airpods? What the fuck are you doing? You aren’t doing real business tasks if you’re using an iPad.

        I’m using it on the phone sometimes to reply to people which I don’t think is a weird use case. The AirPods issue happens on macOS and I’m not sure if you’re just ignorant but lots of businesses operate on macOS, especially in my industry (ui design, frontend web dev) it’s unusual to even see Windows.

        • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
          17·
          3 hours ago

          “lots of businesses operate on macOS”

          No, they definitely do not. If you go into any business in Canada or the US with more than 200 employees, they are running windows on the computers sitting in front of every office drone they have.

          Very specific industries or business may, especially those who are stuck on Adobe’s software, but “lots” is extremely far from the truth.

          • howrar@lemmy.ca
            1·
            1 hour ago

            go into any business in Canada or the US with more than 200 employees

            That’s like, 2% of businesses in Canada. Even if they all use Windows, it doesn’t prove the point that few businesses use MacOS.