Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss

Re:Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day me... by dundundundun on Monday January 19, 2026 @01:55AM (#46675759)

Can I download Teams without it also requiring Microsoft updaters and other stuff that insists on lurking in the background? Having a standalone MS app is fine, but I will never allow their updaters and background processes.

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Re:Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day me... by dangus on Monday January 19, 2026 @11:49AM (#46681185)

The Microsoft AutoUpdate tool is fully configurable so long as your organization doesn’t have any specific forced configurations.

You can uncheck automatically update and install.

You can decide whether or not to run the background service at all at the OS level.

This is a really strange hill to die on because your OS and other programs already have similar functionality, you are just saying no to Microsoft specifically. Chrome runs a background process to stay up to date, for example.

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Re:Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day me... by dundundundun on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @03:48AM (#46689459)

Yeah, so i'm not running Chrome either. I do not (from experience) trust Microsoft or Google to have software constantly running on my computer.

I realize that i can disable the service of course, but then i end up with outdated software.

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Re:Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day me... by dangus on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @06:09AM (#46690551)

You either update the software in the background, you update it manually, or you leave the software out of date.

Microsoft offers you all three options and you don’t like any of them.

I don’t quite understand what mystery fourth option you prefer Microsoft provides for you.

Going back to my original comment, you could have tried Teams in a real web browser before deciding it sucks. Safari is trash.

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