One of my top 5 pet peeves in IT: humanizing software.
I use Teams for work and I actually think it could be classified as malware
The other one instantly visible here: nondescript error messages that make it impossible to fix. ‘Something went wrong’.
And then the troubleshooting steps are like reset the app, reset your account and if that doesn’t fix it reinstall Windows. If it still won’t work, buy a new computer.
It’s terrible, just give me the info I need to figure out the root cause. It’s probably very easy to fix. Instead of the ol’ nuke it from orbit approach.
And it’s not just on the side of consumers either. More and more people are using docker to run shit and just reset or reinstall whenever an issue pops up. Sure that’s often faster and it might work, but it won’t prevent the issue from returning and you won’t have learned anything. I learned the most from fixing broken shit. It requires you to figure out how it should work and what’s preventing it from working like that. We are making ourselves dumber this way.
Anyone else having Teams just disappear without notice? It happens across my office
Afaik it silently crashes and restarts itself minimized to tray every so often
Seppuku
I blame reticulating splines.
There are issues with some of your accounts and orgs.
Corporations are people why not software
“it” being ketamine