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?
  • mlg@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    why/how do these guys design a product this way

    Its just one of many business applications that MSFT provides as you get vendor locked into the Windows platform.

    Technically it was the successor to skype for business, and skype itself was its own product that was acquired by MSFT.

    It doesn’t matter how crappy it is because MSFT can sell it to you as part of a complete package with stuff like Azure, M365, etc, and you would find it annoying to pay extra for a better platform like Slack.

    Does it mean Microsoft can keep running any app which necessarily doesn’t appear on my task manager?

    iirc it shouldn’t be hidden in task manager but it might be easier to use process explorer from sysinternals: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

    Haven’t touched hot garbage windows in a long time so I don’t remember if teams has a non obvious process that runs in the background.