Unbundling Teams from Office has apparently failed to impress EU regulators.

Brussels is set to issue new antitrust charges against Microsoft over concerns that the software giant is undermining rivals to its videoconferencing app Teams.

According to three people with knowledge of the move, the European Commission is pressing ahead with a formal charge sheet against the world’s most valuable listed tech company over concerns it is restricting competition in the sector.

Rivals are concerned that Microsoft will make Teams run more compatibly than rival apps with its own software. Another concern is the lack of data portability, which makes it difficult for existing Teams users to switch to alternatives.

The tech company has also faced complaints from European cloud computing providers that are concerned that Microsoft is abusing its dominant position in the sector to force users to buy its products and squashing competition from smaller start-ups in Europe.

  • LethalSmack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Works well? In relation to what? Carrier pigeons? Did you forget the /S ?

    The only thing I’ve seen it do well is share recorded videos almost immediately.

    It doesn’t even send messages as you’d expect. It’ll show sent on your side but the other person never gets it

    Someone calls and it rings, but the answer button has a 50% chance of not being there so you can’t actually join unless it’s a group call and then you can after it rings for 30 seconds and you don’t even know who called unless they ping you saying they’re calling

    Sharing your screen takes a few tries occasionally and sometimes requires you to rejoin the call

    Notifications? What notifications. They work so rarely it’s become a habit to manually check every few minutes

    And it opens docs in teams!? Who wants that hot garbage

    And the freezing! It regularly freezes for 20 seconds when doing anything in it

    I’d gladly take Skype over the garbage that teams is

    And if that wasn’t bad enough, it’s apparently such trash that it triggers me when someone has anything nice to say about teams. Sorry 😅

    • mx_smith@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Don’t even try and format code with markdown, now you have to make a post with a title.

      • NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Yep, no one likes the “post” style inside of the team space… so we chat inside of group DMs. It’s so fucking stupid

    • ramirezmike@programming.devEnglish
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      7 months ago

      how often do you use teams? And do you usually have network issues? I have pretty stable Internet and don’t run into any of these issues but I could see the occurring if teams doesn’t have a stable connection.

      Teams opening files in teams is super annoying though.

      • LethalSmack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        I use it 5 days a week for work and don’t have connectivity problems.

        These issues are company wide and are not unique to me. I would switch isp providers if that would solve the issue. It’s bad enough that if you want a new computer you just talk to tech support about the issues and they’ll send you a new one since they can’t fix it (not that the new laptops work any better with teams)

        • ramirezmike@programming.devEnglish
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          7 months ago

          do you mostly communicate with people in your company or do you talk with external people too?

          Don’t get me wrong, I know teams has issues, I have my own list of complaints, I’m just surprised how different your complaints are.

          • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            7 months ago

            Same thing here, reading people’s complaints and nothing applies to my experience chatting with over a hundred colleagues everyday…