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by me_me_me 1893 days ago
UI design? Teams has no UI design, but haphazardly aranged buttons that are hard to spot.

I can't describe how bad of experience it is to use.

How does a corp that actively pushes their users/clients into using Teams makes no UX effort.
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mopsi 1893 days ago
The whole Settings app also feels like something thrown together in a really primitive GUI scripting language that doesn't support anything besides text and its alignment.

This is the old disk management utility: https://i.imgur.com/AqhYewC.jpg

This is the new one: https://i.imgur.com/DNb0qJl.jpg

While the old was far from perfect, it at least gave visual hints to how partitions relate to disks. The new """design""" is just plain text, some of which is clickable and will reveal "Properties" button. It's up to you to find the hidden clickspots.

I can't believe they are releasing such garbage. Sometimes I wonder: does Satya Nadella use Windows? How is he not raging every time he opens the Settings app?

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airstrike 1892 days ago
That's one painful side-by-side
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bronson 1892 days ago
“Just throw it in a webview and let’s grab an early lunch.”
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bigger_cheese 1892 days ago
My Org went from Skype for Business to Teams.

Teams is 1000x better.

The part I like is how it integrates with outlook. My workflow is pretty email oriented so being able to send an email meeting request and have that meeting seamlessly show up in teams app is really nice.

Same thing when you receive an email from someone you can click their name and dial them via teams (you could do this with skype to but it was dodgy).

Group calls, screen sharing etc. is miles better than Skype.

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haecceity 1892 days ago
Copying text works randomly...
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tyingq 1892 days ago
Decision makers are pretty forgiving of an application that comes bundled with something else they had to buy anyway. And it is "good enough", despite being worse than competitors, for things like hosting video meetings.
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beckingz 1892 days ago
I hoped that getting vaccinated would make me love microsoft more, but the teams UI is just so bad.

Not to mention the pain that is moving between office 365 apps.

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