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Re:Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Elec... by chx on Saturday June 26, 2021 @10:17AM (#27642060)
While Slack displays all your organizations in a single tabbed UI, presenting you with the number of unread messages on the tab icons in Teams you need to hard switch and you never know what happens in the others. This makes Teams worse than nothing in communications because one half of the communication expects you to communicate and you are not even aware of this. You literally must jump organizations constantly , possibly needing to log in too, just to see who is pinging you.

This has been known since 2016 at least https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/su... "Support for multiple work accounts is still being worked on and will come at a later date."

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Re:Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Elec... by monkeybutton on Saturday June 26, 2021 @10:28AM (#27642163)
Right! My company switched from Slack to Teams and even though we recreated all our original channels, public discussion has all but died. Having to context switch between private messaging and public channels, even though it's just another tab, is apparently just too much friction.

Also opening docs and excel sheets inside the main window by default and blocking chat while doing it is absolutely atrocious.

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Re:Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Elec... by wussboy on Saturday June 26, 2021 @02:20PM (#27644427)
Your last paragraph is a huge source of frustration for me. Such a boner move.
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Re:Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Elec... by bluGill on Saturday June 26, 2021 @03:00PM (#27644798)
Swtiching windows in teams is slow, 20 years ago Microsoft knew the research on this and minimum viable response time. They ignore it and the predictable result is people don't take advantage of teams. It possibly could be good, but I want Skype back, it didn't do as much, but what it did it did well.
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Re:Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Elec... by AtNightWeCode on Saturday June 26, 2021 @12:52PM (#27643505)
You can't even read stuff from other tenants if you are in a video call. Teams came for free at a lot companies I worked with and all of them have moved back to Slack and many of them are also paying for it.
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Re:Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Elec... by chx on Saturday June 26, 2021 @12:57PM (#27643551)
My favorite about video calls is at one of my organizations I am access denied to recordings even when I participated in it. I can't attach images either.

Someone built these features. Why are you building a feature on who can attach images?? The entire mindset is completely wrong and comes from an overcontrolling enterprise mindset completely incompatible with what we expect from a chat tool.

Oh and every time I log in Teams asks whether it can control my entire device. No.

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Re:Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Elec... by AtNightWeCode on Saturday June 26, 2021 @01:12PM (#27643706)
Good it asks though. So many stupid apps like Instagram and so on that assumes that the logged on user owns the device. In Europe it is very common that you are provided with a device from your work place that you also use in private. I did a password reset on Instagram with such a device. Totally unexceptable.
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Re:Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Elec... by ethbr0 on Saturday June 26, 2021 @12:37PM (#27643359)
> chat, meeting, or channel (from parent)

This is the root of all Teams fuckups.

It's an asinine primitive mapping, that could only come from a project manager who spent their entire career optimizing SharePoint access controls to meet HR product requests.

The entire point of modern chat solutions is persistence and searchability. So the only real differentiation should be public or private channels.

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