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Microsoft Teams is dog shit (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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That’s all.

EDIT: Thank you all for detailing your experience with, and hatred for, this miserable product. Your display of solidarity is inspiring. Now, say it with me:

Fuck Microsoft

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[–] 103 points 2 years ago (10 children)

The new outlook has exceeded "garbage" and gone all the way to dumpster fire. It sometimes takes upwards of 15, 30 seconds to open an email. The new auto formatting is a hindrance to be overcome by tricking it to act how you want. Trying to schedule an event across timezones shits the bed half the time, resulting in improper meeting times being sent out. Absolute failure.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    My CISO has all but said he's going to prevent any auto-rollout of that shit because it breaks decades of user training and TRUNCATES THE FRONT OF THE URL, NOT THE BACK LIKE ANY SENSIBLE APPLICATION.

    Like, let's make it so Steve in accounting can't see that the login link he wants to click is actually haxxor.com instead of bank.com, makes perfect fucking sense.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Wait, really? I've found the new outlook opens emails faster than the old one, especially the HTML-heavy ones that my work loves to send me.

    The refactor to the rules UI is really nice too, the old one was so crusty. Can't comment on the timezone issue though.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I've been told the extended time to open is related to how big the outlook database is, I average 200 emails received a day with various alerts and notifications from internal tools and it cripples new outlook in about a week if I'm not diligent with keeping folders cleaned out/emails deleted. This volume wasn't a issue before I switched.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ah so your issue is, let me see here... Ah, actually using Outlook like a normal user.

    I've tried switching to Thunderbird myself but it doesn't support Office 365 without a third party service. So I feel stuck with Outlook.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ah, actually using Outlook like a normal user.

    Ha, right? I'm keeping my fingers crossed there is some executive at MS raging and it will get resolved before they force everyone off the legacy version. Surely there are people inside their organization with tons more traffic than I see.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    There's probably a microsoft engineer out there somewhere sitting in a cubical who has the solution already written and tested and they just can't figure out how to send it to their boss. They've tried outlook, teams, github, skype, and even one drive but they're all so broken that it may just be faster to print the code out and mail it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I will give respect where due: I like the sweep button. It's handy for me personally, as someone who is on several email lists that are public-facing. That's about it.

    Every attempt to help me automatically is a pain. Like most things in this vein it never learns what you're trying to do, only what they would do in a given scenario that's vaguely like ours.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I think there's tons of things I love for it to do for me automatically - there's all sorts of quality of life features that I only notice when they change it, usually without bothering to tell me. And now, my muscle memory is leading to unexpected behavior, and it'll take me weeks to learn to stop doing that, and a few more months of training to learn the new muscle memory as I relapse at all the worst times

    Some of it is straight up better, some of it is great new capabilities, but in the last few years? All that comes to mind is I thought it was pretty cool they added auto responses, even if I never actually use them. Doesn't change existing behavior, just adds a new option that's not in the way

    But then the auto complete - I hate it so much. And I love auto complete - except it's the fucking opposite behavior of every IDE out there, including Microsoft's! I can't even unlearn it, because it's a core part of my workflow!

    So now, I constantly have to delete things I never wanted to say, and I delete the things I thought sounded good.

    I like new features and the computer doing things for me automagically... But I'd rather them to just stop at this point

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