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But you have to agree the state of MS Teams is an absolute shitshow. The quality is like it's put together by a bunch of guys coding on their spare time if they feel like it.

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That would be a passion project. I find it hard to conceive of Teams as a passion project, except possibly by people who have a passion for hating the world.

If Microsoft has a penchant for hiring people passionate about hating the world that would explain a lot of their software over the years.

or if something about working at MS instills in people a passion for hating the world...

If MS software is the worst software you’ve used, you’re living a pretty good life.

There are businesses running on software that makes Teams look like a paragon of performance, stability and user-focused UI/UX.

> There are businesses running on software that makes Teams look like a paragon of performance, stability and user-focused UI/UX.

Those (probably) aren’t trillion dollar businesses.

SAP has a market cap of $135B, not a trillion dollar business but in the top 100 largest companies in the world.

> If MS software is the worst software you’ve used, you’re living a pretty good life.

I've used much worse, almost always enterprise software.

That doesn't excuse Microsoft, but ultimately I just make sure my personal life and my jobs stay as far away from their software as I can.

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