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That’s all.

EDIT: Thank you all for detailing your experience with, and hatred for, this miserable product. Your display of solidarity is inspiring. Now, say it with me:

Fuck Microsoft

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Unfortunately, much better than Skype

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I miss that ringtone though.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s possible to be worse?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Oh fuck yeah. Skype used to throw errors when the advertisements scripts didn't run correctly. I remember getting dozens of pop ups when the ad changed to something new. To my knowledge, they haven't put ads in Teams, yet. They first need to kill the competition a bit; really set the hook before they reel you in.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Skype was a steaming pile for sure, but it had the ability to search for and message a distribution group and get an answer from whomever was available and I could pin it for future use. Now I have to know every name in a group and message them individually until I find someone to help or start a meeting to get everyone at once. It may just be how our Teams instance is configured, but I miss that feature. And who decided there should be a limit on how many people I can pin in Teams?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The real Skype was fine.

This Skype, I think, is just an ugly version of Teams.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (26 children)

i hate ms with every fiber of my being, but teams has gotten better. it used to be practically unusable. now its just mostly so

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

It sucks, it doesn't work properly in Firefox, so I have keep it open in a Chromium window too. This morning I saw new messages in my Chromium but not in Firefox until I reloaded the page. I wonder what other information it's keeping from me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Is there any video chat service that isn't? It seems every single one has some glaring issue that makes it a pain to use. And it's not like I could just use a FOSS thing that's better; this is one of those things where you are kinda limited to using what everyone else you're going to be talking to is using. :(

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I initially hated Zoom, but honestly, it did its job really well

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

three trillion dollars

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Microsoft ~~Teams~~ is dog shit

FTFY

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