Technology

I swear people do not understand the point of what microsoft does.

There isn't a team tasked with making teams worse. They're tasked with extracting all possible value out of their product. Part of that value is infromation like where you are, what you're doing, what you're talking about, what you search for, what you actually do for your job, who is around you, what they talk about, where they are, what they are doing, what they search for, and what they do for their job and how everyone spends their money.

All of this is incredibly valuable data to governments, businesses and private individuals that want to advertise, suppress dissenting political voices, enhance useful dissenting political voices, and otherwise manipulate global influence.

They just don't want you to think about declining any permissions, triggering regulatory action, or switching to another platform.

They've crossed the line a long long time ago. All microslop products are straight up unusable.

Microslop

And the name of that team: Microsoft

There’s a web client. I’ll use that from now on if I have to. Should I use any particular browser that prevents access to WiFi details?

I wonder if the web client can be bookmarked to my desktop with the Teams icon.

Microsoft: Our product is not our software. It's you!

Linux Mint is very easy to use.

God damn it, at work they pay us to put that stuff on our personal phones... maybe I've been a bit too lenient on that, maybe I should get a work phone.

I worked on a large(ish) contract (tens of millions) with one of Microsoft’s engineering teams where they were implementing an Azure managed version of software we produced. I would regularly refuse to install teams at the meetings, using teams in-browser only.

It also ensured that the technical project manager had to be the one to transcribe anything in our notes into whatever tools Microsoft was using.

While it was never said, the Microsoft engineers seemed to completely understand and never pushed back against my refusal to a) install crapware and b) not take on work that wasn’t mine.

Not using teams: win win.

To be fair, this is barely a feature. If you are on WIFI anyone that really cares knows where you are already

The users aren't the customers. The customers are the users' bosses.

This is illegal in Norway :)

Before Teams when Evilcorp was using Skype for business the app would update our location within the building.

No worries, I use Linux for work and privately :)

I was gonna use teams for a few groups of people, but fuck this noise. What are the best alternatives? Something like slack or discord but those have their issues too

Teams can be worse?