Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?

Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by mBVth4DiupvBPY4 on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @09:18PM (#32933750)

I'm not sure what you're referring to with two non-interoperable message apps named Messenger? There was MSN Messenger/.NET Messenger/Windows Messenger/Windows Live Messenger, but those were interoperable (they were the same thing, just updates). They also managed to wrangle compatibility with Yahoo Messenger (although by then no one I knew still used Yahoo), and apparently Facebook Messenger, and then did a crappy merger/migration to Skype.

I'd go back to those days in a heartbeat, and I was there.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by coredog64 on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @11:47PM (#32934591)

NT had a built in messenger service that operated on named pipes. It was one of those services you disabled as soon as you could.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by virgulino on Thursday September 22, 2022 @02:25AM (#32935369)

To be fair, it was a local network toy, more akin to "talk" or "finger" in Unix.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by pdntspa on Thursday September 22, 2022 @01:35AM (#32935118)

I got into so much trouble as a kid for abusing that...

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by merb on Thursday September 22, 2022 @02:24PM (#32942725)

net send *

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