Teams destroying relationships

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What is it people don't like about Teams? It's mostly about integration with SharePoint

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C# is a decent language. I'll stick with Java because the api ecosystem is so vast.

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I had to use Teams for a hybrid conference. I used a Black Magic ATEM as my capture and the team's camera kept crashing. Checked every setting imaginable. Yet when I used OBS Virtual Camera as my video source and used the ATEM through OBS there wasn't a problem.

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When I used to install collaboration systems, the main thing clients would tell me why they chose say a Logitech Rally with MS Teams over Cisco and WebEx was it's cheaper. With that said you can setup a Cisco Room Kit with Teams integration.

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Did you see the launch of flight sim 2024?

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I too would be wary of anyone working at Microsoft (or Oracle, or Salesforce, or SoftTech, or Tata or a bank).

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I feel like you're the only person making sense. I work for a big corp that has a competent IT department. We shifted over to teams from Skype after COVID like a lot of other companies. There were some growing pains especially with some of the older folks at work but honestly it's been a net benefit. I have my personal gripes but my company is over 20k people and our implementation of the system is honestly awesome for corporate work.

Everything now is linked through our SharePoint site and smaller org based teams groups within that. We each control our own little micro site within the greater whole and it's much easier to share things between groups vs sending directory links through email or Skype. It's much more secure as I can control the permissions of files I share when I make the link. Very helpful when communicating with outside vendors. Timed permissions are really nice too as I can share access to a file for a certain amount of time before they have to request more access. Auto save has saved my ass tons of times but that's more of a SharePoint thing. But it does cause Excel sheets to calculate slower which is a big bummer and a tradeoff.

Does teams fuck up sometimes, ya it does. Especially when sending pictures or videos but fuck I don't know how you would even run a huge org like ours without something that is this integrated. People that complain about teams on Lemmy have interacted with it very little or work on teams that are small and don't implement it right. Id rather use a different system if I was working in any other environment and I do when I work on personal projects or small volunteer teams. Mostly slack and discord.

Sure the better option is a home brew system internal to the company you work for but when our company is already using Azure and 365 the switch to teams has been a no brainer.

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I've used Teams, Zoom, Google Meet. Teams is the worst.

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No, what happened (gets popcorn)

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Well, they decided to launch mostly via cloud, which greatly reduced my install requirements, however, it also didn’t work, and had input issues.

They also added weird sounding AI voice over to everything that sucks.

Then, they promised backward compatibility with any aircraft purchased in 2020 and launched 2024 without a content manager or the said backward compatibility.

That’s only scratching the surface too. I think it should and would have been delayed if 2024 wasn’t in the title and Microsoft would have had to eat crow if it didn’t release in 24.

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Clippy designer.

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I guess that means they don't have an XBox or play a lot of PC games? Maybe they prefer Nintendo or PlayStation?

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Shit, that blows. Make a decent product for over 40 years and didn't think to load test and have everything proper for launch. That's sad

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The problem stems from Microsoft products not working with each other in the way you would expect. I don't mind SharePoint and OneDrive both existing - they have different use cases, but add in teams for accessing files as well, and it all gets very complicated, and things start not working like you think they should.

On a personal level, I find most Microsoft products a confusing mess these days. Outlook on browser is insanely awful. The ribbon thing in office is just random.

The one thing that hasn't terrible is VS Code. It does get a bit random in places, but mostly it's pretty intuitive and nice to use.

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Teams is the evolution of the excellent Microsoft Lync which then became the horrible Skype for Business which then was replaced by the superior Microsoft teams.

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It's that. It's been a hot minute, but (IIRC) for me it was the less-than-great UI/UX that really adds up to a high friction experience. Especially when compared with software like Slack or Discord.