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?
  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 day ago

    Have you actually tried Teams? It stands above all the rest for number of issues. There are a lot of good ideas, but then it’s like they had a bunch of interns hack together the ui over a weekend and never fixed it

    • IWW4@lemmy.zip
      3·
      1 day ago

      Yes…

      I have used it daily for at least six years.

      Overlayed on that is I have used WebEx for about 15 years, hell maybe 20 years.

      I agree that it has UI has issues, so does Webex, so does Zoom… hell Skype had its issues as well.

      There is a lot about teams I don’t like, but that is every collaboration tool I have ever used.

      Truth be had the only collaboration tool I have ever been satiated with is the tool my university used back in 2000, but that probably had more to do with not having to drive to class.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 hours ago

        Maybe the real issue is the idea of a “collaboration tool”. You could argue the only such ambitious tools I’ve tried are lotus notes and Microsoft Teams, and both were horrible: lots of services but in an ugly ui with poor usability. Teams had unreliable phone and notes didn’t have it at all.

        It’s much better dealing with a set of tools containing better implementations of the feature you want. Maybe it’s just not useful trying to cram that much functionality into one tool.

        And yes I’ll name names, I currently get much better results from

        • zoom for calls (especially with their generated summaries!)
        • slack for texting
        • files in a variety of tools specific to the need
        • IWW4@lemmy.zip
          1·
          10 hours ago

          You are absolutely correct. That they aer bundling the different software is why it will lack.

          If a tool bundles up 10 components and then you poll ten people all they have to do is not like one of those components for the whole bundle to lack.