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I just missed our daily scrum because of Teams. Now, Microsoft in their infinite "wisdom" have decided to integrate Outlook calendar invites into Teams so any invitation shows up as a notification, looking like a red warning light as if something is seriously wrong. Then, when you click that notification you're lead astray, moving away from what you came there for. In my case, I'm only using Teams for online meetings, usually our daily scrum which is always located in the same chat room or whatever it's called. But once lost in the catacombs of Teams, it's just impossible to find my way back in this garbage heap of a UX. So instead, I tried to use the link in the recurrent calendar event for our daily scrums. This always used to work, but now it says "On hold". Teams is such a piece of junk, just like most M$ products nowadays. I've complained about Teams, Word and Outlook to my superiors, and suggested we'd replace them with better tools, but to no avail. They go like "We've paid a lot for these Microsoft licenses so we just have to continue using them". So, the logic is like...If we're paying for crap we're stuck with the crap. 🤔

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    Even worse, there are at least two different versions of Teams, and two different types of Microsoft logins, which can be hard to discern, even more so, when some of the apps and websites are automatically translated to German and others aren't.

    Microsoft fans (yes, they do exist) claim that Microsoft pioneered digital accessibility and is still the best choice for international collaboration. What a pity if that's the best we got in 2024.

    Regular customers seem to like Teams, Outlook, and Microsoft Office, because it's part of their infrastructure, they have the right logins and permissions and got used to the pitfalls. If you have never used Google Meet, Mail, and Calendar before, it might feel the same, though, or if your microphone suddenly refuses to work in Zoom.
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    @ingosteinke This... I ended up with a private email myname@company.com and a corporate email also myname@company.com... The tenant here was so confused that I couldn't login on all the corporate stuff.

    (In the background, MS had attributed a very random outlook email to the private account. Something like outlook154623@outlook.com)

    So confusing.
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    Microshit's endless integration of spyware bullshit has a computational cost. Funny how they get to rip people off and absorb other IPs (and re-implement them poorly) with really no repercussions until the EU gets involved. I thought we had antitrust laws in America, since JP Morgan, the Rockefellers, and all of those people that Upton Sinclair wrote about.
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