Fuck Microsoft
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2026
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anyone using teams besides work deserves any kind of banner
Free services mean that you're the product and now you are still the product but with added charges. We are each, individually keeping MicroSlop in rude health.
This isn’t new. I’ve seen similar banners in the past few years. And I complained to our IT team or my manager both times.
Is there an alternative to Microsoft Teams?
For the "online video call" part, plenty. For the whole integration with agenda, persistent chatroom, etc… plenty, too. Nothing is 100% a match on his own, but depending on what your users actually uses, you can basically self-host a whole "meeting/project tracking" stack on your own with nextcloud at this point.
Or if you're a little bit fancier, alternative management tools. But we did not need fancy.
Proton Meet
Matrix, it is an open standard and the reference server implementation along with some other server implementationa and the various popular clients are open source. The Element X client and the main fork of it called schildiChat both look a bit like Microsoft Teams. But there are other clients and a company could fork an existing client and customize it to suit their needs or even create a new one if they really wanted to spend the resources.
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Teams barely works on my 2 devices.
It's so fun to redownload the app twice just before meeting (on phone as I need the camera) and then still end up using it in the browser without logging in!
The enshitification will continue until morale improves.
Gen A will be so used to enshitification that they won't be all down about it. I think you are wrong though, I think even if the morale is relatively improved, it will continue.
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Huh, I checked mine and it just had the three dots, then the "Unlock Premium" banner appeared after I had it open for a few minutes. I closed it and reopened and it only has the three dots again. Guess it waits to ambush you.