Microsoft will continue on inertia for years. but it's basically a walking corpse full of parasites at this point.
jtrek
joined 6 months ago
I find teams won't mark messages as read. Like I'll be focused on the chat and it'll stay unread. I have to click out and back into it.
When there's one of those horrible "teams" things with threads, clicking on a new message on the sidebar shows me just that message. No context. I have to click on the channel and find it.
The core problem is they have "chats" and then some other horrible thing that looks like channels but sucks. Maybe they wanted that to be like a message board? I hate it.
Most of my work uses "chats" instead, but that's horrible. No discoverability. A thousand permutations of people in chats. One for every meeting. (Was that important message in the standup chat? The planning chat? The side chat with the three competent guys?). And no threads.
Just give me channels with threads.
I think they have incentives to tag broadly but not accurately so they pick up more visitors. Tag it as "anal" when there's like a glimpse of butt, and you might get more views from people looking for that. There's no mechanism to punish inaccurate titles and tagging that I know of.
I'm pretty sure they don't invest in search because it's a poor return on investment. Most people just hit the first page, crank one out, and leave. The next cohort is similarly easily satisfied with their crap search. The people looking for specifics like "big tit short red hair reverse cowgirl pov outdoors at dusk" aren't profitable enough to spend engineering time on.
That's my hypothesis, anyway.
My hypothesis is that the least competent people use AI the most, and it's a big multiplier on their incompetence.
There's an element of self control to sticking to values. I've seen people proclaim like they're going to boycott EA because of various reasons, but then some shiny new game comes out and those values fall.
Maybe they never really had he values in the first place.
Ew. That is certainly unpopular. Teams can't even do read/unread notifications
A lot of Linux works out of the box now. If folks started selling preconfigured Linux machines like you can buy for windows, that's all most people need. Valve is following a good strategy
It does feel like the average person has the self control of a toddler.
The megacorp I work for is frothing at the mouth to replace people with AI. Most of leadership doesn't know anything about programming, but still feel confident to talk about it.
Teams is the worst. Microsoft keeps finding new lows.
Not excited for this to be used to squash union efforts (legally or not)
Ed Zitron wrote a whole thing about these people. Calls them "Business Idiots"