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Re:GitHub to layoff 10% and closing all offices by brazzledazzle on Thursday February 09, 2023 @01:35PM (#34728873)
What you don't like collaborating in the excel web app and wiping your coworker's active cell edit from existence by inserting a row somewhere above it? Next you're going to tell me you don't enjoy powerpoint web app randomly changing formatting in bulleted lists when you do something as complex as hitting enter to add a new line.

You can tell where Microsoft spent their energies (outlook, teams, maybe onenote?) and which web app products feel just about the same as they did when they were sharepoint web apps.

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Re:GitHub to layoff 10% and closing all offices by matwood on Thursday February 09, 2023 @02:21PM (#34729710)
> were sharepoint web apps

ARE still sharepoint apps. At least that's how they feel.

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Re:GitHub to layoff 10% and closing all offices by brazzledazzle on Thursday February 09, 2023 @02:46PM (#34730203)
Oh yeah for sure. I think I meant to say on-prem sharepoint web apps. Which were terrible. Just like SharePoint. SharePoint and every single one of its components really embodied everything wrong with Microsoft's culture. It was distilled awfulness, lack of attention to detail, terrible customer experience, awful UX and just insane architecture decisions that still impact 365 to this day. The SharePoint list limit that Teams hit when you added too many people to a team (since worked around or fixed) a couple years ago is a prime example.
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Re:GitHub to layoff 10% and closing all offices by brmgb on Friday February 10, 2023 @04:47AM (#34737600)
No one uses the web app. You can obviously collaborate from the actual piece of software.

Every discussion about Teams boils down to the same thing: software engineers needs when it comes to collaboration are low so they are happy using an expensive text chat client and they don't understand how the rest of their company actually works and what they need.

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