The only thing that was not really worse was email, we came from lotus notes which was a crashy piece of shit.
But our messaging, storage etc solutions all were a big step back when we went to Microsoft.
in a DeLorean?
We used it until about 2019 :S
The reason was that during the years a lot of people had been 'creative' and built tools in its database/scripting language. Many of these tools had been abandoned but still had wormed their way into critical business processes. It took us years to decommission most of them and in some cases rebuild them with modern tech.
I really miss Lotus Sametime though. It had so many features that Teams doesn't.
- Show my online presence status to everyone except person X
- Send me a popup when person X comes online
- Disable message read receipts for person X
- Custom emoji
Well lots of stuff like that. Really handy in avoiding toxic colleagues if you're neurospicy :) Or to catch them first thing when they came online because you need something from them. It was also much more fun in sametime than Teams.
Teams also keeps a 100% persistent record of everything you say even if you delete it. In Microsoft Purview. It's definitely your enemy.
But it was damn handy sometimes. Teams doesn't have this feature.
What was more of a lifesaver was the not showing status to some people though. There was one guy who would consider me his personal support person and this was really annoying. I know it's not normally considerd a good thing to solve a human problem by technical means. But for me it works just fine and much better than taking it up with the person themselves.