Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
by moonchrome on Monday February 13, 2023 @01:27PM
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>Making Teams not suck doesn't move their revenue dial one iota.
That's not true, I would switch to Office 365 if it didn't suck. Having an entire suite fully integrated and under one license is a great value proposition - but the thing has to work. I've had to use Teams over the years and every time I get the same shitty experience I've had with it 5 years ago when I first tried it.
Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
by matwood on Monday February 13, 2023 @02:29PM
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> I would switch to Office 365 if it didn't suck.
From what? O365 collaboration is terrible. If you do joint document editing, O365 will drive you nuts after using something GSuite. What many do is have GSuite and then O365 for people who need office products for various reasons.
Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
by moonchrome on Monday February 13, 2023 @03:24PM
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That's my point - I would replace GSuite and Slack for O365 if the later wasn't so bad. I have the office 2019 package when I need to use office apps.
Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
by yanellena on Monday February 13, 2023 @06:32PM
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I don't quite know what I'm doing right but half my day is spent in Teams and the other half is in documents with 4-6 other people working in them at the same time and I can't remember the last time we had a real issue.
I can understand Teams being a pain in multi-tenancy setups but even that is something which I've noticed is being improved recently.
Re:GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
by lovecastro on Thursday February 23, 2023 @04:29PM
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In what ways does Teams "suck?" Slack is wildly more expensive, so it's hard for people to see the value in paying so much for it. How does Teams negatively impact the bottom line for a company?
List of products Microsoft makes:
- [bajillion item list of everything including the kitchen sink]
List of products Slack makes:
- Slack
Microsoft gives Teams away for free and to them it's worthless. They have no incentive to make it great, just good enough that you'll look at the price of Slack, look at the price of Office 365, and say "ehh, we can save some money, Slack can't be that good." Making Teams not suck doesn't move their revenue dial one iota.
(And sure, Slack is owned by Salesforce and they make a bajillion things, but Slack started as its own company that just made one thing, and made it well. They're at least coasting on that laser product focus)