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.

“[…] I love Teams”

• mrgoosmoos, 2025

So uh, what's everyone using these days to call internationally to cell phones or company landlines? Because teams looks like they've cut all that functionality for me, unless I'm just not understanding their dumbass interface.

We never had the ability to make outside calls from teams, only teams to teams calls. We went from physical phones on desks to Cisco soft phone since lockdown.

Got it. So basically micro$hit shut down Skype with nothing to replace it.

Actual signs of a stroke for those who want to or should know: the acronym is FAST- face, arm, speech, time to call 911.