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The four horsemen of shitty chat apps (programming.dev)

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[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I don’t use teams, but is this like the opposite of HBO who has had a dozen names for the same app? Teams has a dozen apps all called Microsoft Teams? That would actually make sense considering Microsoft also calls everything copilot.

[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

They indeed have several apps called Teams, 2 of them are incompatible by design: the home and the business version. Both of which probably have different active versions by now, all called Teams. And the user doesn't know which one they have open.

What's broken with Microsoft changes over time and I haven't used Teams in a good while, but at one point it was possible to send someone a teams meeting invite, they would download teams from the link in the mail and get the home version unbeknownst to them, leaving them unable to join. Microsoft would decide which version the user got based on their Windows account, regardless of the invite.

One solution for this was to find a direct download link of the right version of Teams, which was posted on some trouble shooting page. But even with the right version, the user could still be automatically logged into that teams with the wrong account. For meetings outside the company, it was just easier to not use teams.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Also renamed RDP to "Windows App" adding extra complexity to searching. Geniuses I tell you.