Every MS product (except for maybe VSCode and latest .NET) feels like Gates and Ballmer are still there saying "whatever - you'll have to use this because your $BIGCORP bought it from our salespeople!"

Excel is still pretty good

The optimist thinks the glass is half full

The pessimist thinks it's half empty

Microsoft excel thinks the glass is January 2nd

One word: Designers.

They currently seem to love the "hieroglyphic controls floating in a sea-of-whitespace(or blackspace)" trend.

Aren't designers also responsible for the designs of the most pleasant GUI apps we ever use?

It seems like the real problem has to be deeper, having to do with upstream business demands or fashion trends among UI designers pushing designs from their original contexts into contexts where they no longer make sense.

Teams would use 1GB RAM for each DM window if they did that.

And the download button when someone sends you a file would still not work.

self reply cuz why not

On a computer, shrink the Teams application to its smallest allowed size, the hold up your phone next to it. Teams can display on the phone, so why can't you shrink it down to a phone size?

cmon microsoft let me have my small chats. It's been in your uservoice thingy ever since launch.