That’s all.

EDIT: Thank you all for detailing your experience with, and hatred for, this miserable product. Your display of solidarity is inspiring. Now, say it with me:

Fuck Microsoft

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Is there any video chat service that isn’t? It seems every single one has some glaring issue that makes it a pain to use. And it’s not like I could just use a FOSS thing that’s better; this is one of those things where you are kinda limited to using what everyone else you’re going to be talking to is using. :(

  • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    What blows my mind is MS fucking bought Skype and somehow Teams still can’t handle video calls correctly. The actual fuck did they do with that acquisition?

    • Evil_incarnate@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Skype used to be peer to peer. Your call went from you to your friend (whomever). Microsoft decided that they couldn’t mitm that setup to scrape data; so, soon after they acquired Skype, they made all calls go through their servers.

      Then they tried to make Skype make more money, since those servers aren’t free. Then they made teams and copied half the code into that, and cludged the rest to make it hold together.

      • sunbeam60@lemmy.oneEnglish
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        4 months ago

        In mean aside from the fact that almost all of that story is completely wrong, it’s a good story.

        Source: Used to work at Microsoft and worked a lot with people from the Skype team.