Paul Förster Jun 25

Just a simple #Fact for #Today and, in fact, any other day. 🤣

#Memes #Microsoft #MicrosoftTeams #Windows

Show threadGarretSidzakaJun 25

@paulfoerster @nixCraft
Now that my PTO started I just uninstalled it

I can always reinstall some other day.... Or not 😁

Show threadPaul Förster 
@GarretSidzaka @nixCraft I can’t. It’s on my work computer. 😔 Lucky you. 🤣
Jun 25 at 3:45pmWeb
Show threadGarretSidzakaJun 25
@paulfoerster @nixCraft the joke is on me, I was talking about my cellphone teams. I don't open that laptop ever on vacation
Show threadPaul Förster Jun 26

@GarretSidzaka @nixCraft We can’t use Teams on the (work) cell phone. There are licensing restrictions and other requirements. But we have to use it on our work computers.

Privately? Never! Same for Windows in general. 🤣

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Paul Förster Jun 25

Just a simple #Fact for #Today and, in fact, any other day. 🤣

#Memes #Microsoft #MicrosoftTeams #Windows

Show threadTuchowskiJun 25
@paulfoerster 😂👍🏾
Show threadHP - MorepowerJun 25
@paulfoerster Mi tu😋
Show threadrANDOM ❄️ iNDUSTRIESJun 25
@paulfoerster whats your alternative ?
Show threadPaul Förster Jun 25
@random_industries Quitting the job. 😝
Show threadPaul ArmstrongJun 25

@paulfoerster The thing that amazes me about Teams is that it's where information goes to die.

It's just too damn easy to lose stuff in Teams. Even conversations that we were only typing in a few minutes before somehow become challenging to find. I really don't know how they managed to make the UI so damn bad.

Show threadPaul Förster Jun 25

@psa It’s not only the UI. It starts with its launch. Selecting launch at login and start in the background will make it not throw its window in your face. That’s good. But it will hide in such a way that it doesn’t even have a Systray icon.

And as I said, that’s only starting. I could write books about its flaws by now. Everybody I know hates it.

Show threadPaul ArmstrongJun 25

@paulfoerster Oh yeah, I had issues with "restarting" it not having the intended effect. Until I realised that in order to actually shut it down, there's a background process that needs killing via task manager.

And the crashes, mostly partial so it's not clear that it's crashed until someone says they can no longer hear you.

The ability to lose info is just the one that bites me hard pretty much every day.

Show threadPaul Förster Jun 25
@psa Had a meeting today. I was confused by all those too many windows in addition to the ones I need for work.
Show threadéric 🚲 🇪🇺 Jun 25

@psa @paulfoerster
I don't know what OS you're using but, on Linux, Teams is the only tool I use that consistently crashes my window manager. I absolutely hate having to use it. I have to make sure all other applications have saved everything etc.

It's marginally better via a browser but only just and, even then, only if I turn off any ad blockers... why that should matter, I don't know, especially given that we're actually paying for the privilege.

Show threadPaul ArmstrongJun 25

@ericsfraga @paulfoerster I use it on Windows, not by choice.

How on earth does it bring down a window manager? That does seem likely to be a window manager bug though, it should be bullet proof.

A lot of Microsoft stuff doesn't work with even light forms of privacy protection. We've had a number of issues with Microsoft sites around Firefox Enhanced Tracking Protection, for instance.

Show threadéric 🚲 🇪🇺 Jun 26

@psa @paulfoerster
> How on earth does it bring down a window manager? That does seem
> likely to be a window manager bug though, it should be bullet proof.

Apologies, I was sloppy. What happens is that the video driver for X segfaults which, of course, kills the WM and all applications. Of course, you could argue that the video driver should also be bullet proof but... nvidia.

Show threadéric 🚲 🇪🇺 Jun 25
@paulfoerster @psa
I don't think you could design a worse interface and UX if you tried.
Show threadPaul Förster Jun 25
@ericsfraga @psa Well, in fact, you can. I’ve seen even worse than that in my decades spent in IT. But yes, this sets the bar pretty low.
Show threadéric 🚲 🇪🇺 Jun 25

@paulfoerster @psa
Yeah, I'm sure. But I remember, back in the 80s, talking to MS employees about their exciting "usability" labs ...

Sigh.

Show threadPaul Förster Jun 26
@ericsfraga @psa I remember that too. I guess they closed them in the 90s and fired the employees due to doing nothing productive. 🤣
Show threadPaul ArmstrongJun 25
@paulfoerster @ericsfraga Indeed, there are plenty of worse examples. <cough>Cherwell.</cough>
Show threadi_give_u_wormsJun 25
@psa @paulfoerster it's like an alien space person got to look at browser tabs and got the shit beat out of them before they got back to the mothership to report on the innovation they were trying to steal that actually works
Show threadi_give_u_wormsJun 25
@psa @paulfoerster don't tell them exactly what's wrong they don't deserve help, the disease is obviously coming from inside the product, they tried to steal from and disrupt too many things at once
Show threadPaul Förster Jun 25
@i_give_u_worms @psa Whoever wrote Teams must have one beer too much. 🤣
Show threadi_give_u_wormsJun 25

@paulfoerster @psa
embrace
extend
extinguish

surveil
steal
sabotage

Show threadPaul Förster Jun 25
@i_give_u_worms @psa I‘ll quit my job in about seven years. That’ll do. 🤣
Show thread🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦Jun 25
@paulfoerster I like Teams. I worked on a multistate team that all used RHEL. We had to communicate by phone, email, and pidgeon chat. Then a (limited) version of Teams came out for Linux. It made a world of difference, including letting us work from home.
Show threadPaul Förster Jun 25
@Methylcobalamin Then you’re the second person I know who likes it. 🤣 My boss does too…
Show thread🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦Jun 25
@paulfoerster lol
Show threadKickDownCHJun 25
@paulfoerster Wobei es heute eher Exchange ist, das wieder mal Probleme macht
Show threadMassimiliano SiddiJun 25
@paulfoerster I‘m also quite annoyed sometimes by teams. It‘s our company‘s telephone software. And Cory Doctorow‘s “enshittification” can also be observed in teams. Every update has virtually written “fuck you, customer!” over it.
Show threadoxidandJun 25

@paulfoerster

I'm not a big fan of Teams, but I still think #Zoom is the worst of all =)

But I'll keep the picture and replace Teams with other awful products (#Jira comes to mind) xD

Show threadThe1goit Jun 25
@paulfoerster replace "me" with "any sane human being" and the meme would still work.
Show threadMontegasppα Cacilhας Ⓐ♾️🇵🇸Jun 25
@paulfoerster Know that feeling…
Show threadHoracioDosJun 25
@paulfoerster Embrace what you cannot change, you must. MS Teams, ever present for you, it will be.
Show threadMurdoc Addams 🧛🏻 🇨🇦Jun 25
@horaciodos @paulfoerster
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
-Dylan Thomas
Show threadHoracioDosJun 25
@murdoc @paulfoerster
Rage, rage against the muting of the mic
Join, join each meeting of the night.
Green-lit my status stays; through every endless thread,
defiant, in MS Teams we fight!
Show threadMichael VilainJun 25
@paulfoerster Back when I was still looking for a job, recruiters wanted my LinkEdIn and Voip IDs. After using Teams briefly while at Intel, I can concur with this assessment.
Show thread Leo 🇲🇽Jun 25

@eco_amandine Tengo curiosidad... Yo aborrezco Teams por cómo es Microsoft Teams, ese odio no se extiende a todas las plataformas de videoconferencia...

¿Ustedes también? ¿O su odio es generalizado hacia las videoconferencias?

@paulfoerster

Show threadXanatos Jun 25

@paulfoerster Just asked my company if I do get an additional 16 GB of RAM to run teams beside my IDE.

Sadly they said no.

Show threadGarretSidzakaJun 25

@paulfoerster @nixCraft
Now that my PTO started I just uninstalled it

I can always reinstall some other day.... Or not 😁

Show threadPaul Förster Jun 25
@GarretSidzaka @nixCraft I can’t. It’s on my work computer. 😔 Lucky you. 🤣
Show threadGarretSidzakaJun 25
@paulfoerster @nixCraft the joke is on me, I was talking about my cellphone teams. I don't open that laptop ever on vacation
Show threadPaul Förster Jun 26

@GarretSidzaka @nixCraft We can’t use Teams on the (work) cell phone. There are licensing restrictions and other requirements. But we have to use it on our work computers.

Privately? Never! Same for Windows in general. 🤣

Show threadAllan ChowJun 25
@paulfoerster oh I'm stealing this one
Show threadPaul Förster Jun 25

@grumpasaurus You can’t. I already did. 😝

I found it somewhere on the web. Source unknown.

Show threadPlum BlossomJun 25
@paulfoerster you don’t like spyware for genocide???
Show threadLouDJun 25
@paulfoerster
Yes, thanks for posting a photo of me!
Show threadPaul Förster Jun 25
@loudfpv Is this yours? Well, sorry for shamelessly posting it, but it‘s just too good to be held back.
Show threadLouDJun 25
@paulfoerster
no not mine lol, I meant that it's me in the bottom left picture 🤣
Show threadinateJun 27
@paulfoerster How many customers did Microsoft lose when they closed the church of Skype?

I still can't believe Yahoo Messenger was shut down it was a great msging service + was the last man standing that could manage video (MPEG1 even!) over an extremely low-bandwidth-intermittent connection. YM was an astonishingly good product - so rare to see things like this from a Silicon Valley company.
Show threadPaul Förster Jun 27

@nom I don’t know, but I know that I don’t like Skype either. I just don’t hate it as much as I hate Teams, though.

I don’t know Yahoo messenger.