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by cameronh90 1745 days ago
Hasn't this behaviour been the case since at least Windows 98? I'd say Windows has improved a lot since then! Remember Active Desktop, the Channel Bar and MSNBC?

I may have misgivings about certain things in modern desktops but Windows 10, OneDrive, Teams, Edge absolutely deliver a better experience for an average user compared to XP, Microsoft Briefcase, Windows Messenger and IE6 - and XP was one of the good ones!
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phkahler 1745 days ago
>> but Windows 10, OneDrive, Teams, Edge...

My company issued laptop came with all that. After installing some important software (embedded compiler and IDE, wsl, etc) my one drive complained it was full, which needs to be addressed or it will keep complaining. The recommended solution is to upgrade to a paid onedrive with more then 5GB. I didnt know I was using onedrive, so I turned it off. All my important files created over that last few months disappeared. I could buy more onedrive space to restore them or they did show them all in some folder so dragged them back to various places. This was 100 percent wasted time since the machine came with something on the order of 100 times the 5GB onedrive freebie limit.

Now months after having turned off onedrive, it's full again. Must have got turned on again, but not by me.

Teams is another one I dont even want to get started on. And edge is just chrome with MS corruption and starting at Bing.

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max46 1745 days ago
>Teams is another one I don't even want to get started on.

At least this one is actively used by most companies (at least outside of IT/devs firms) and they generally find it acceptable.

OneDrive on the other hand... Even when I was an IT consultant, I haven't met a single person who has tried it and didn't absolutely hate it. I have seen employees playing out of pocket for dropbox or gDrive even when OneDrive came for free with the MS Office subscriptions provided by their employer because of how frustrating it was to use and work mysteriously disappeared or got corrupted on a regular basis.

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hulitu 1744 days ago
> >Teams is another one I don't even want to get started on.

> At least this one is actively used by most companies (at least outside of IT/devs firms) and they generally find it acceptable.

Yes they find it acceptable in the way a slave prostitute finds the client acceptable. I have to use Teams because it is company policy. On my computer such a parody of a program has no place. Using it is an exercise in masochism.

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pixel_fcker 1745 days ago
Teams is a strong contender for most aggravating software ever written.
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rocqua 1745 days ago
It's written horribly, butstillbetter than Skype for business
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vladvasiliu 1745 days ago
> I may have misgivings about certain things in modern desktops but Windows 10, OneDrive, Teams, Edge absolutely deliver a better experience for an average user compared to XP, Microsoft Briefcase, Windows Messenger and IE6 - and XP was one of the good ones!

I'm not familiar with Briefcase (never knew what it did) and I'll give you Edge vs IE6.

But Teams vs Windows Messenger? No way. I'm running Teams on a computer orders of magnitute more powerful than what I had at the time of XP, and it STILL lags. I'm not a particularly fast typer, but it STILL can't keep up with me. This is, hands down, the worst piece of software I have to use today.

And I bet if it wasn't pushed "free" by MS to companies already using their stuff, no one would know about it.

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