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Rant warning!

I mean I just quit a office call, the share screen ribbon wouldn't disappear, opened task manager to kill it nope not found, finally had to select a "quit teams" option from start window. Note this is still windows 10.

Further the entire teams app is sloppy, when I start listing, the enter works but within the same message (when unintended) I have to ensure I click shift+enter to enter a new line. I can't choose between enter and shift+enter.

A few questions now:

  • why/how do these guys design a product this way
  • Does it mean Microsoft can keep running any app which necessarily doesn't appear on my task manager?
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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

That's nothing, Google had almost a dozen different chat apps at different times, some of them simultaneously.

As for

Does it mean Microsoft can keep running any app which necessarily doesn't appear on my task manager?

A lot of background services run as ‘svchost’, which loads the particular library implementing the actual service. Services can be added by applications, from what I understand. They all look the same in the task manager, and also can't be properly selected in a firewall app because again it's the same executable.

This is not to say that Teams specifically uses an svchost service, but they could if they wanted.

[–] vaderaj@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Speaking about 'svchost' etc. I won't break my head into it. But on the other hand would love to explore the extension of 'ps' and how it relates what you just told

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

If you mean PowerShell, it's just text scripts that run sorta like programs. I don't think many scripts are used in Windows or in apps, outside of sysadmin stuff and sometimes app installers, so idk where you're seeing them.

However, PowerShell uses the extension ‘ps1’. ‘ps’ is PostScript, which is a page layout format similar to PDF and in fact the precursor to it.

Neither of these are related to svchost. PowerShell scripts typically run start to end in one go and don't hang out in the background (tough in theory they can).