How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare?

Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by commandar on Sunday February 11, 2018 @03:16AM (#16351753)

>Microsoft has one included with Outlook whose name escapes me.

Mircrosoft's current stab at this is called Teams. I think it actually has potential: it's pretty much a clone of Slack, except that MS is willing to declare it compliant with, e.g., HIPAA.

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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by dorgo on Sunday February 11, 2018 @05:11AM (#16352049)

Teams is a nightmare. Buggy, slow UI (I suspect that they use their browser internally), annoying. They started to worsen Skype too, but it is stil heaven in comparison. I suspect that they make bad UX on purpose. No way to release such a bad IM client by accident.

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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by toyg on Sunday February 11, 2018 @04:49AM (#16352000)

Teams is a cross between Slack and Facebook. It has channels, but also a threaded-messages structure that is just painful. Everybody in the company I work for wants to like it, but they struggle. Slack would be so much better, but then we’d lose Sharepoint and AD integration and we’d have Yet Another Silo We Have To Pay For.

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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by darklajid on Sunday February 11, 2018 @09:03AM (#16352709)

I found it horrible, clients are Electron monsters (but still bo Linux version..) that they shove in your face whenever you try to use the web version.

So far I can stick with Lync/Skype for Business at my day job, which is bad too but.. slimmer, and does the job. Most of the time.

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Re:How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare? by option_greek on Monday February 12, 2018 @01:31AM (#16356950)

I'm positive that they run the whole damn thing in a VM and electron together :). Its the very epitome of slow.

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