Was there ever a MS Teams feature anyone actually liked? Seems like the whole product is based on loathing.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2026
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Loathing and fellating their corporate partners. Every part of Teams is extremely user-hostile...
Good to remember that the client for Teams isn't you - it's your IT department
No, it's upper management. I don't give a fuck what you're doing all day as long as it doesn't create security vulnerabilities in the environment
Lol, are you kidding? IT gets to experience the suck of using it, and of administrating it. For as bad as the front end of Microsoft stuff is, the back end is usually worse.
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It’s for CSuite that doesn’t wanna pay for slack but sees teams bundled in office and says “good enough”
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I was at Shiny Night at one of the local Seattle furry bars a little while back and wound up hanging out with a bunch of folks in really well articulated fursuits talking shop. Eventually, as it does with any group of devs, the topic drifted to the classic game of "who hates Teams the most" and unfortunately it turned out the people I was drinking with:
1- Were mostly M$ developers working on Teams doing their 'team bonding' polycule thing.
2- Hate teams more than I could possibly ever manage. I mean, you think you hate teams? You think it's unmanagable, insecure, convoluted and a pain in the ass for your IT crew? Imagine what the backend for that disaster must look like, then make that your entire day job. My god, it was a level of vitriol matched only by discussing Deutsche Bhan with a group of drunk Germans...
“Users may hate”
Sweety, we already hate everything MS. Take a wild guess…
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Users "may" hate?
Many also do not care, unfortunately.
Let's not get that Lemmy echo chamber vibe where a few dozen of us agree that millions of Windows users don't exist.
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Hmm...
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Wow, and what an image…
Should give the teams logo a whip at this point
Microsoft says that this feature is basically a replacement for physical workplace check-in peripherals, it reduces the need to manually update your status
Considering how much I have to manually fix my regular teams status, I have doubts as to how effective this will be.
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it reduces the need to manually update your status, and it also enables co-workers to know that you're at work so that they can coordinate in-person meetings with you.
They're not even trying with these weak ass justifications anymore. Are either of these things an actual problem for anyone?
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Basically, Microsoft Places and Teams have received workplace check-ins via Wi-Fi. The idea is that if an employee arrives at the office and connects to their enterprise network, their profile status indicator will show them as being present in the office.
Joke's on you. My work is so stingy, they don't offer WiFi to employees. Also, I've blocked location permissions in Teams, just in case.
God damn I hate this universe, why is technology a tool to create new shackles instead of breaking old ones
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My company device already has so much surveillance on it that this won't make a meaningful difference to me.
However, given that they can't even get my activity status right, I don't see it going well. For example It sets me we idle even if I'm typing furiously in my editor, unless I go wave my mouse cursor in Teams for a few seconds. Other chat apps got this right decades ago.
It doesn't deliver messages or delivers them out of order. Unread status on messages doesn't work right. It crashes randomly. I could go on.
Fix the core functionality, Microsoft, instead of adding all kinds of big brother bullshit. I don't trust Teams to get anything right and neither should my manager.
Even better when you have multiple machines logged in.
I am simultaneously presenting in a call and magically away from my desk, soon to be while working remotely and sitting at a desk in the office.
Fucking idiots.
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If it's a new Teams feature I'm going to hate it regardless of what it does. MS doesn't make software for human beings any more.
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We have teams. It sucks. They’re going to make us use it for phone calls soon.
The phone calls part is one of the better parts at least for me) for Teams. It has it's own number, works on all the devices, can forward, and works well. I don't want to carry a work phone, and don't want a desk phone in the office (even though we have ones that connect to Teams). If there is a better solution that's 'cheaper' all for it, but seems pretty sold.
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I look forward to everyone being shown as located in the major city where our VPN is listed instead of where we actually are. That's how it works for browsers and other location based functionality now.
Even without VPN, IP-based location has always shown me in all sorts of random places, sometimes even in the opposite end of my country. Guess it's an ISP thing.
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Around here employers gets to pay trillions if they even put themselves in the position of snooping on employee data , like location, without a distinct need for each individual they snoop on.
Location: at work.
Since teams is for connecting people remotely (office to office, office to other departments, etc) what sense does this make?
Being "in office" has nothing to do with my location.
Microsoft sucks so much.
Easier to control if your employee is actually at the office instead of working from home.
It's not like the pandemic proved most office jobs could actually be done remotely...
Users as in (office) workers. I cast a enormous doubt that there is no living person who chose Teams over literally any other messaging app just to use it for their main way of communication outside of their workspace.
wasnt it only yesterday that Gremlin Satya Nutella was telling employees they should not be tracking their staff?
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