'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
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'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
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Apart from all the absurd stuff MS does with user data, I simply cannot understand why people use Teams - it's a terrible app for video calls.
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We use it at work because it's intergrated into Office. I suspect that's why most people use it.
Typical Microsoft tactic for domination - bundle it in, integrate it and then people won't try other stuff. Anti-trust / Anti-monopolies laws used to be used to fine and stop this, but now they can do whatever they want.
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My boss used to use zoom but when he scheduled a zoom meeting office would put a teams link in too. When it was time for the meeting everyone would just click join in the office reminder and jump on the teams call. Every time. Eventually he gave up and started using teams.
I do have to say I like having my team on there and being able to contact or be contacted by contractors outside the company easily. Zoom had more audio issues in my experience as well. Teams often selects the wrong audio output but I just know to switch and it works whereas zoom breaks audio half the time for me.
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Yes, that's clear, but I think Teams is still terrible even in this situation. I really can't imagine a use case where this app would be a good choice - even if everyone uses Office. What are the advantages? What are people doing that couldn't be done with any other solution? I realize that it's probably mainly because employees are set in their ways, but is there really an objective reason why it has to be Teams? And as I said, I mean that even if you ignore the data protection nightmare that this application is.
Edit: Sorry, I probably misread that. I assume you use Teams because every employee has an MS365 subscription anyway. That seems like a waste of money to me tho, because every Office app can be replaced with a free open source app – except perhaps in the few cases of Excel power users. But that's just my opinion – in corporate practice, things look very different.
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Our corporation mandates it, the person behind it is not tech savvy and immune to advice
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Why do you think it's bad for video calls? I find It works perfectly fine
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In my experience, teams has performance issues, consumes a lot of system resources, and has a confusing, unintuitive interface. I also find it outrageous that the teams app adds itself back to autostart every time you use it.
I also have concerns about where my data is stored and how it is processed.
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In my company in nearly every meeting someone has issues with either video, audio, or screensharing not working. We even had a couple instances (including for myself) where it showed the camera as being off, but other people could see you....
For comparison, as much as I dislike google, I also regularly use Meet and I can't even remember ever having issues.
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Hooray, we're doing something that isn't despicable for a change!
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As always: too late and too little. Better than nothing, though (and "nothing" was [and still is] quite expected)...
It should be "We're done with Microsoft" as the very least.
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Microsoft has been embedded in most enterprises and governments since the 90's.
Though it should be a top priority of every government on earth, replacing it completely with FOSS would likely be a multi-decade IT project (to do it properly, instead of doomed-to-fail attempts).
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Finally some good news!
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