Microsoft (MSFT.O) will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the U.S. tech giant said on Monday, six months after it unbundled the two products in Europe in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine.
Microsoft (MSFT.O) will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the U.S. tech giant said on Monday, six months after it unbundled the two products in Europe in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine.
Maybe businesses will stop forcing “free” Teams on their workforces now. What a pile of shit.
I fucking hate teams, I swear every single day it iritatea me, and at least once a week I find something new I hate about it. This week, it keeps pinning my self-chat. Which I don’t use. If it lets me unpin it, it’ll end up pinned again within a couple of days.
It is a huge source of frustration for me at work as well. It is slow, it has too many weird and ill-defined features shoved in, it is difficult to search, the WYSIWIG markdown features are fuckulated, it crashes regularly, there is too much wasted/negative space in the UI, and worst of all, it makes me sad in my heart.
What’s a better alternative? I was a big fan of Teams back when I worked with an org that used it
How? It can’t even handle copy/pasting text without fucking up the formatting.
Creating new SharePoint sites whenever you start a chat so that you have a whole new way to lose your documents?
Better alternative? Pretty much any other chat app.
Slack and Mattermost
Slack is my modern go-to, but I still also use IRC. Slack has great support for technical chat, doesn’t slow my i7 with 32GB RAM to a crawl, has great multiple account support and even voice chat if you are into that. I prefer zoom for video when I need it, but slack’s isn’t nearly as shit as teams.
Honestly? Even Discord, a game chat app. Teams just sucks.
Or matrix. Matrix is great.
Honestly the standard way should be that organizations host their own Matrix server. Then they don’t have to pay for enterprise Teams or whatever, and they control their data.