[Lutger]

This resonates. Microsoft does this with a lot (not all) of their products. Its also my experience here in the Netherlands, especially how Microsoft does sales. Its always management who forces everybody to use these products against their will, especially as they come for free in their 365 package. Nevermind that is a pale imitation of an MVP version of their competitor.

For the decision makers, it doesn't really matter that the consequence is loss of work satisfaction and productivity. That is _their_ problem.

My regret is not finding out about this earlier in my career, in the future tooling will be an important consideration when choosing jobs, and I'll avoid orgs who are in an iron grip by Microsoft like the plague.

[yurishimo]

As someone who just moved to The Netherlands, this bugs me as well. Many of my interviews happened over Teams, which should have been red flag. Luckily, my IT department is small enough that we can use Discord for general chat and some video calls, if we don't need high resolution, but we still have to use Teams to interact with the rest of the company.