This is gonna sound like a troll post but i assure you it is not.

I don’t have a coding background but I’ve used Teams in a lot of workplaces and really only encountered like 2 issues entirely.

Either I got seriously lucky or it was before enshittification.

Why do you yourself dislike it? Is it UI? Performance?

I should also say I use Teams for basic purposes like messaging and uploading files, I literally don’t touch anything else and performance hadn’t been an issue. (Likely because I’ve been given thicc-ass workstations in the past)

  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
    1028·
    4 days ago

    1. You can see other people’s calendars in Teams, just click “schedule meeting” and use the scheduling assistant just like you would in outlook. If you’re looking at calendars manually before booking meetings you’re doing it wrong to start with.

    2. They aren’t.

    3. To prevent stupid people pinning so many messages that the feature becomes useless.

    4. Because the system settings are usually not what you want, most people don’t leave their headset on all day and only pick it up for calls.

    5. What’s wrong with Ctrl+Spacebar? I use it all the time

    6. Why are updates happening during your meetings? How would that even work?

    7. I’ll agree with this one, meet now isn’t useful. Just call the person.

    8. Because teams is a Communications AND Collaboration tool, if you’re only using it for communication you’re clearly haven’t taken any sort of training on how to use it properly or you’d be using the apps all the time.

    9. Never had this happen

    10. I agree with this one, I hate OneDrive, it’s bad data governance. Everything should live in a shared space at work.

    11. If you have so many favorites that it’s an issue, you’re doing it wrong. See #3.

    12. Because some types of organizations use this frequently, just because a feature doesn’t apply to your work situation doesn’t mean it doesn’t apply to others.

    Edit: Oof, people don’t like to have it pointed out that they lack education do they?

      • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
        28·
        4 days ago

        Nope I just use it every day in the standard office environment for which it was specifically intended.

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      4 days ago

      To prevent stupid people pinning so many messages that the feature becomes useless.

      Because the system settings are usually not what you want, most people don’t leave their headset on all day and only pick it up for calls.

      “Teams knows best!”

      • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
        15·
        4 days ago

        Teams in in use by a few hundred million users, and most of them don’t complain about them. So maybe they do know best.

        • SMillerNL@lemmy.world
          8·
          4 days ago

          Every time we have to join the Teams call of another company, every one of my colleagues (in a GSuite company) complains how bad Teams is at doing calls. Isn’t it supposed to be a tool for doing calls?

          • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
            17·
            4 days ago

            No, it’s not.

            Teams is a Communications and Collaboration tool, not strictly a communications tool. It makes certain tradeoffs in order to optimize it for it’s intended use case.

            • SMillerNL@lemmy.world
              7·
              4 days ago

              So that’s why it’s much worse than Google Meet at doing the one thing I need to use it for.

              Interesting choice by Microsoft to make everyone who isn’t using the entire suite think they’re just terrible at the job you expect from them.

              • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
                17·
                4 days ago

                Anyone who has a software license for Teams has their entire suite, and Microsoft doesn’t market enterprise products to end users.

    • hddsx@lemmy.ca
      31·
      3 days ago
      1. I have literally three people on my team. It is more efficient to have three people’s calendars up and just create a meeting for the open space. Why would I do something that is LESS efficient because that’s how teams wants me to work?
      2. I’m glad that you can agree that there aren’t always updates. Could you pleaes explain why, then, there has been an “Updates available” button on my teams for three weeks even after I press it?
      3. OK. There are again, three people on my team. Also, maybe don’t form chats with stupid people?
      4. Nobody in my organization uses a headset. Ever. We use bluetooth headphones.
      5. Because i’d like to set my own shortcut like literally every other voice application?
      6. There are not updates in my meeting. Every few updates of the application, when I am on a call with team members, someone randomly gets muted through no action of anyone in the call.
      8. I’ve tried to use the collabration tools. They aren’t that useful. OneNote is more useful. I understand if you are forced to use it because you don’t have more efficient methods of collaboration. But I do. So, again, why would I choose a less efficient way of collaboration?
      9. Yes, it’s a bug.
      11. Why do you think I have too many favorites? I have 5.
      12. The exact opposite arguement can be used for so many of your replies.