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'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft (us.afpnews.com)
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At a time of growing concern over the power of the world's mighty tech companies, one German state is turning its back on US giant Microsoft.

In less than three months' time, almost no civil servant, police officer or judge in Schleswig-Holstein will be using any of Microsoft's ubiquitous programs at work.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm stuck with Teams in my job.

I fucking hate it.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 1 day ago

It crashes, it loses things, it has a lousy search function, to automate messaging you need to learn one of the arcane and convoluted MS services because they deprecated the much easier webhooks...

When something fails (and it always does) we just say "Well... it's Teams", and that sums it up.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 6 points 1 day ago

Same. I've come to terms using it in browser mode on Edge, same for Outlook. The desktop applications are so horrific, I uninstalled both. Half the time they wouldn't work or force log me out.

Now I literally have a standalone screen that's showing nothing but Edge with those two tabs on, and all my productive environment is on a nice large screen where I don't have to see the crap.

[–] Hawk@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Any suggestions on alternatives?

Slack is ok but proprietary.

Element is a new and eg fractal doesn't have threading.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Sorry to say, but no idea.

We used separate applications for seven years (Jabber for IM and Asana for ticket management), and for me, that's what I'm stuck with using Teams for, at least until Microsoft drops AI into and it eats itself.