But I do like MS teams

You and me are out there enjoying it (unless you are being sarcastic, then it's just me out there in ignorant bliss).

I still don't get why people are so opposed (it's cheaper than the collection of apps required to do the same thing). The best reason I heard was it doesn't work well on Linux, which I'm like duh - they don't care about that demographic, like, at all. My best thinking is that maybe folks aren't using all the features. I mean, one of them is a voiced Copilot summary of a meeting done by a man and woman, like they are talking about the meeting at the water-cooler. Truly terrible and amazing all at once.

At this point, any file you store in Windows is temporary only. Backup it to your phone if you want to be sure.

And, of course, neither of them is private. Expect them to be sent to everybody you know with your name attached.

For me is the low bar of quality assurance. It is so incredibly filled with bugs.

Wrong connection status, inconsistent connection status, sometimes decides to not receive any calls and ghost missing calls are a daily ocurrence in my group. Literally any of these bugs will happen 5+ times a day.

I'm also convinced it is the reason my Win10 install got borked and had to reinstall the whole OS.

Microsoft anything, really

OneDrive/SharePoint is worse than Teams. fight me

ofc I would never say I love Teams

When I worked at Boeing, for reasons that are completely unknown to me, they had features of some products (including Teams) disabled and were running versions that were quite behind. And it occurred to me that some people experience the tech this way. I wonder if that is happening for others who have negative experiences...

Confirmed hilarious by an actual stroke victim.

I had hope for Microsoft when they came out with WSL and VS Code.

I was a fool, of course.

lol! You had a stroke!?

When I worked at Boeing, for reasons that are completely unknown to me, they had features of some products (including Teams) disabled and were running versions that were quite behind. And it occurred to me that some people experience the tech this way. I wonder if that is happening for others who have negative experiences...

Onedrive is a nightmare.

Once made the mistake of keeping some personal photos in the 'pictures' directory of my own laptop.

Then started a course at uni, installed the free student version of MS365 or whatever it's called, including onedrive.

Next thing i know, I get a popup notification displaying the 'best of' my private photos on screen, while I'm showing colleagues something on my laptop!

It's so calming when it just decides to not get any new message for a day and starts removing meetings from your schedule...

For me is the low bar of quality assurance. It is so incredibly filled with bugs.

Wrong connection status, inconsistent connection status, sometimes decides to not receive any calls and ghost missing calls are a daily ocurrence in my group. Literally any of these bugs will happen 5+ times a day.

I'm also convinced it is the reason my Win10 install got borked and had to reinstall the whole OS.

This is not the future we were promised. I never would have thought that we would have to be our own security experts to save ourselves from the companies we depend on.

Often times it is because of limitations beyond the control of MS. Like, in my company we use MS products because they are the standard. But we have to work with the vendor and IT to selectively disable a group of features and updates. Because we are very secretive and confidentiality is paramount for very good reasons, it has nothing to do with trade secrets, it is about protecting people. Nothing can leave our servers, no telemetry, no AI, no automated cloud backups, no summary, no bots on meetings, no transcriptions, none of the usual crap they are constantly pushing for. Salesmen look at us like we are aliens, but it's either that or we can't do our job well. As a result, we are often left with lobotomized versions of the same apps. But at the same time, it shows how little those feature are actually useful or necessary. And in particular, how they are a prime point of failure and bugs.

Our Teams still fucks up connections from time to time. But it is usually because it forgets it is neutered and tries to do something it isn't supposed to do and our VPNs nuke the connection. Like trying to call MS instead of our servers for telemetry, or trying to spin the module for a feature that doesn't exist in our network. Then it becomes very obvious how buggy and ungraceful the whole app is. It can't fail gracefully, it just craps itself and drags the whole computer with it.

not to be "the guy" ... but there are alternatives, surprisingly simple, if you just give it a try

Are you kidding? I would pay extra for these features.