Why is teams so terrible? No really. It shouldn’t be this bad. I feel like ICQ, mIRC, and Roger wilco combo back in the day was better.
Because it’s not good at a single thing and yet tries to do everything. It’s slow, cumbersome, and poorly laid out in a way that discourages a productive workflow.
Microsoft rushed the hell out of it to ride that Zoom covid wave and never bothered to go back and figure out why not a single person you’ve ever met actually doesn’t mind it (nevermind likes it).
Sigh. I’m on the team that manages the phone and IM platform for my organization. We are on Cisco Jabber which is admittedly super outdated at this point. Around covid times, we got a new hot-shit CEO who replaced most of our upper management. The new CTO looked at our mature and relatively painless Cisco environment, heard our pleas to let us upgrade to WebEx Teams (Cisco’s replacement for Jabber) and said, “Nope. I had MS Teams at my last job, and I want that here.”
Roll forward five years and the CEO is long since kicked out, the CTO just left, and we’re right around the corner of our AD/Exchange team FINALLY moving us to M365 and giving us access to the tenant so we can START learning what this monster is going to take to manage.
Fucking C-suites…
It took your company 5 years to be at least hybrid joined to Entra? Fucking hell.
We’re a large financial institution who got dinged to hell in a recent regulatory audit. The pace of change around here could aptly be described as glacial. It was a big culture shock coming here from an MSP after years of Small/Medium Biz roles.
I talked to my coworker about this and he assured me that the current Teams was many years of polishing this turd. So it was way worse "back in the day*…
That is true. It’s at least tolerable now
Because MS purchasing Skype and tried to integrate it with Lync but it failed.
Then they decided to take the unified communications part of Skype for Business and slap an integration with SharePoint by wrapping it in Electron.Yep. That sounds like teams.
They were faster. At the computers at the time.
They also transmitted data faster, at the internet at the time.
One thing they didn’t do was to allow for meetings. You’d need to go as far as Skype for that. Yeah, Skype worked faster and transmitted data faster, but MS brought it and now it doesn’t.
Also, the other thing they didn’t do was to share your calendar with Outlook. Teams actually doesn’t do that one well, and there are some groupware software that work better (none from MS), but you’ll be getting into the deep woods of software your security team never heard about.
Is there a higher quality version of this meme I can send to my boss so I can skip the standup meeting tomorrow?
I used slack for about 4 years and it was the best. Had everything you could ever want for that sort of thing. As a graphic designer, I took pride in creating hilarious representations of my team mates as emojis for all to share. Then I changed jobs and started using Teams. It’s like… Why even bother? Let’s just go back to physical letters and phone calls while we’re at it. Except, that would be more reliable.
Teams has the custom emojis if your admin enables them.
Yeah, it should be enabled by default now.
New meme template just dropped!
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Truly an enemy of the people.
