“Users may hate”
Sweety, we already hate everything MS. Take a wild guess…
im sure there ar eother ways of tracking thier progress, like thier work/projects done on a deadline. its more or less a control issue.
Since teams is for connecting people remotely (office to office, office to other departments, etc) what sense does this make?
Being “in office” has nothing to do with my location.
Microsoft sucks so much.
Basically, Microsoft Places and Teams have received workplace check-ins via Wi-Fi. The idea is that if an employee arrives at the office and connects to their enterprise network, their profile status indicator will show them as being present in the office.
Joke’s on you. My work is so stingy, they don’t offer WiFi to employees. Also, I’ve blocked location permissions in Teams, just in case.
God damn I hate this universe, why is technology a tool to create new shackles instead of breaking old ones
If it’s a new Teams feature I’m going to hate it regardless of what it does. MS doesn’t make software for human beings any more.
It will also introduce 50 new product-breaking bugs
it reduces the need to manually update your status, and it also enables co-workers to know that you’re at work so that they can coordinate in-person meetings with you.
They’re not even trying with these weak ass justifications anymore. Are either of these things an actual problem for anyone?
“Hey are you in the office” works well, too.
But IME if I am, they are just lining up at my door anyway and I can’t focus on actual work. At least when I WFH, I can ignore “hey you got a sec?” until I actually do.
My status is permanently set to Away so that people don’t bother me with stupid questions like “are you in the office”, although for some reason teams randomly resets my status to green every couple of weeks until I notice the increase in stupid questions.
users have the ability to control whether they want to enable it or not
So just don’t enable it then.
Its likely they will be forced to and it may even be enforced by group policy at some time in the future if its not already
Users “may” hate?
Many also do not care, unfortunately.
Let’s not get that Lemmy echo chamber vibe where a few dozen of us agree that millions of Windows users don’t exist.
Yeah, the vast majority of people barely even know how to use a web browser. They won’t care about (or even notice) this change.
If possible: grab a router and install OpenWRT onto it, and turn it into a wireless bridge. Use the router to connect to the office WiFi, and have a wired connection to your laptop. Turn off the laptop’s wifi for good measure.
Alternatively, if work provides hard lines, bring your own router and turn off WiFi to provide a protected hardline.
There are many ways to prevent the computer from realizing what network you are on.
grab a router and install OpenWRT onto it, and turn it into a wireless bridge. Use the router to connect to the office WiFi, and have a wired connection to your laptop
A setup like that would trip our IT security. I actually killed all the phones on our floor by doing a simple packet route they didn’t recognize, they have the routers set to kill all the PoE and block all data when anything they don’t recognize comes through.
Please don’t come to GCCH.
Please don’t come to GCCH.
Please don’t come to GCCH.
Was there ever a MS Teams feature anyone actually liked? Seems like the whole product is based on loathing.
Teams isn’t made for the users.
I can’t for the life of me figure out who it is for.
Management wanting to track your activity, Microsoft wanting your data,…
Good to remember that the client for Teams isn’t you - it’s your IT department
Lol, are you kidding? IT gets to experience the suck of using it, and of administrating it. For as bad as the front end of Microsoft stuff is, the back end is usually worse.
Wtf are you on about administering teams is braindead
It’s for CSuite that doesn’t wanna pay for slack but sees teams bundled in office and says “good enough”
Well to be fair slack is quite expensive, and getting worse every year. Both in price and usability.
No, it’s upper management. I don’t give a fuck what you’re doing all day as long as it doesn’t create security vulnerabilities in the environment
They recently cribbed the Catch Up feature directly from Slack. I’m a big fan of that. Come up with a good feature on their own? Nah.
I mean, that has been Microsoft’s MO for their entire existence. With the exception of maybe some versions of Visual Studio, everything they have done was see what they can copy off their competitors.
Wasn’t the original Visual Studio just Borland Turbo C++ with a non-ascii GUI?
If your whole ecosystem is in azure, it kind of works. Similar to gsuite
… For the admin. It’s easy for the admin. That’s not the users.
I bet some employers love that shit. They are Microslop Teams‘ main customers. Making our life miserable is a feature.
Microsoft says that this feature is basically a replacement for physical workplace check-in peripherals, it reduces the need to manually update your status
Considering how much I have to manually fix my regular teams status, I have doubts as to how effective this will be.
It would be very useful me to know if a colleague is in the office or not without the need to message them and wait for answer.
But yes, I have to fix my status roughly once per day, so I have doubt this feature will work properly.
It would be very useful me to know if a colleague is in the office or not without the need to message them and wait for answer.
But if you know they’re in the office, aren’t you then going to message them and wait for an answer?
My company device already has so much surveillance on it that this won’t make a meaningful difference to me.
However, given that they can’t even get my activity status right, I don’t see it going well. For example It sets me we idle even if I’m typing furiously in my editor, unless I go wave my mouse cursor in Teams for a few seconds. Other chat apps got this right decades ago.
It doesn’t deliver messages or delivers them out of order. Unread status on messages doesn’t work right. It crashes randomly. I could go on.
Fix the core functionality, Microsoft, instead of adding all kinds of big brother bullshit. I don’t trust Teams to get anything right and neither should my manager.
Even better when you have multiple machines logged in.
I am simultaneously presenting in a call and magically away from my desk, soon to be while working remotely and sitting at a desk in the office.
Fucking idiots.
Hmm…
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Wow, and what an image…
Should give the teams logo a whip at this point
