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Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees (www.theregister.com)
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[–] myliltoehurts@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm in the same shoes about new job having to use teams and I wildly disagree. It is awful.

The best part of it is the noise cancellation on the microphone in calls seem pretty good and having a chat created for meetings is a good integration. BUT..

  • voice quality significantly decreases as soon as it's more than 2 participants.. you can clearly tell the difference as soon as a 3rd member is invited.
  • annotating on the screen share is extremely useful in slack (not sure if zoom has it too), not a thing I could find in teams
  • the channels Vs chats separation in the UI is just weird
  • the chats don't have threads.. that's such a strong feature to contain conversations. I know the channels kinda serve this purpose but it feels weird to use them and closer to sending an email or posting on a forum than directly talking to someone (with having to write a title and bring presented in 1-2 messages per screen due to the size

Compared to zoom, I guess it's not a big deal really. I'd prefer zoom but it's oh well. Compared to slack (which has it's own set of problems, but still) however it seems like a pile of shit in my opinion.

[–] jackalope@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Teams has live annotations, it's under accessibility settings.

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

Are you thinking of live captions?

Annotation is on the sharing toolbar (full screen share only, not a window only share).

[–] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why is it under accessibility settings, though?
It's not an accessibility setting!

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

Its not, AFAIK. I think they are thinking of live captions.

Annotation is on the sharing toolbar, usable with full screen share only.

[–] myliltoehurts@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you, I'll give it a try tomorrow.