Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?

Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by Kukumber on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @07:48PM (#32933145)

For this reason the US military said NO to Microsoft [1]

The more the deep state (nothing about conspiracy theory, it's just the people at the oval office, and their surroundings, mostly industry lobby) want to trust and push Microsoft, the worse it's going to get in the coming years were AI, software and hardware will be the deciding factor for the civilization war we are currently living

> Microsoft insiders worry the Pentagon may walk away from its $22 billion contract for mixed-reality goggles as the device continues to disappoint the military

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-military-hololens-...

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by ineedasername on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @08:07PM (#32933272)

We need another less polarized word than deep state to describe the various industrial complexes entrenched in military & government, and the revolving door of employment between government -> lobbyists -> industry etc.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by delecti on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @08:24PM (#32933385)

I think "military–industrial complex" is the typical term.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by rchaud on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @09:11PM (#32933698)

It is, but despite it being coined by a former US President and WW2 Allied General, it is now taken to mean something akin to "defund the military".

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by krapp on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @09:14PM (#32933717)

Eisenhower wasn't exactly praising it when he coined the term, and the military and military-industrial-complex are different things. You can support one but not the other, although most people who use it in conversation tend to be against both, since it's implicitly pejorative.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by r00fus on Thursday September 22, 2022 @12:42AM (#32934863)

It has a bad rap because of the lobbying that defense companies do to ensure their profits are fed by the government. Oh and the wars.

I'd say they're equivalent to Big Pharma or Big Oil - all of which have captured any regulatory agency designed to control their misbehaviors.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by MikeTheGreat on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @11:33PM (#32934523)

Could you clarify? I'm having trouble understanding the equivalency because "Military industry complex" is a noun and "defund the military" is a verb (more-or-less)

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by adwn on Thursday September 22, 2022 @02:21AM (#32935343)

I believe rchaud meant that the set of people using the term "military industrial complex" has a large overlap with the set of people demanding to "defund the military".

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by runlevel1 on Thursday September 22, 2022 @01:01AM (#32934960)

For those unfamiliar with it, it was President Eisenhower's farewell speech:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower%27s_farewell_addres...

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by KerrAvon on Thursday September 22, 2022 @12:08AM (#32934693)

In what circles does it mean that? I’ve never heard that one.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by rchaud on Thursday September 22, 2022 @09:29AM (#32938499)

Among politicians. Military spending is the one thing that never sees top-line cuts, even among so-called fiscal conservatives in Congress that are otherwise happy to slash "wasteful" federal funding for social programs.

You can lobby all you want to cut other types of government 'pork', and you'll probably have some champions in Congress on the same page. Only the military is untouchable. It's un-American to even consider cuts in that sector.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by pessimizer on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @08:23PM (#32933374)

Or we need to stop banning words because people we don't like start using them (correctly, I might add.) It's annoying that once some people started saying that the country was run by a deep state populated by communist lizard child molesters, the reaction was to start insisting that there wasn't a deep state at all.

Maybe we can say military-industrial complex? Nice, venerable, well-established phrase, notably popularized by a president during his final words as a president.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by troutwine on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @08:46PM (#32933534)

> Or we need to stop banning words because people we don't like start using them (correctly, I might add.)

Who is banning words? At least in the US you have every right to say 'deep state' all you want but it probably doesn't mean in other people's minds what you might want anymore. I mean, it's the way of language evolution that when a phrase picks up a much different and negative connotation from what it had previously people stop using it.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by dismalpedigree on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @09:59PM (#32934011)

Military didn’t say no. Congress stepped in and demanded accountability. Military is still having wet dreams about IVAS (military version of hololens). Last I heard was an initial purchase for 1,000(?) units to continue testing. Also the military loves Office 365 and Teams. Everything is done through it now, of course nobody knows how to use collaboration tools and there is no training, so they still email PowerPoints all over the place.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by giantg2 on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @08:10PM (#32933298)

I swear I saw a recent article saying they were moving forward.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-us-army-combat-hololens...

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by blahblah12 on Thursday September 22, 2022 @12:52AM (#32934917)

Unfortunatley like many of the other comments have pointed out. This is incorrect. Most of the military currently uses Teams and O365. The military deal for hololens is going through and the shipments are greater thant he initial order. That information is dated.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by Godel_unicode on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @11:09PM (#32934392)

Not so much:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-01/microsoft...

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by B1FF_PSUVM on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @08:12PM (#32933321)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_of_Sabotage

Looks like Microsoft will have to do in the matter of keeping the state from being too efficient.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by encryptluks2 on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @08:00PM (#32933232)

Lol.. we all know Microsoft gets these contracts by rubbing shoulders with the right people and they have very little to do with whether the products are actually good.

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