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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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[–] clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Unfortunately, much better than Skype

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

The "boop beeep boop... Beee-ooop beep" one?

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Oh fuck yeah. Skype used to throw errors when the advertisements scripts didn't run correctly. I remember getting dozens of pop ups when the ad changed to something new. To my knowledge, they haven't put ads in Teams, yet. They first need to kill the competition a bit; really set the hook before they reel you in.

[–] mangaskahn@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Skype was a steaming pile for sure, but it had the ability to search for and message a distribution group and get an answer from whomever was available and I could pin it for future use. Now I have to know every name in a group and message them individually until I find someone to help or start a meeting to get everyone at once. It may just be how our Teams instance is configured, but I miss that feature. And who decided there should be a limit on how many people I can pin in Teams?

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The real Skype was fine.

This Skype, I think, is just an ugly version of Teams.

I mean, Skype now is just a turd. I guess it was given to interns as an exercise and as a way to force people to use other solution. But teams also suck, in its own particular way as you described