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Teams' Linux client keeps recording after call

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I dont understand how a multi-billion dollar corp can make a application as bad as Teams for Linux.

Its actually amazing how any PM allowed the release of an application as shitty as Teams. Does MS not dogfood their own applications so that their own Devs are forced to deal with the consequences of the abomination they have created?

Skype for business had a similar issue with screen sharing on Windows.

Because they want you to move to Windows and proclaim how much better Teams is within the Microsoft ecosystem. The goal is making sure that enterprise doesn't like Linux desktops.

From a source claiming to be a MS insider[1], reason number 2 for docx was possibly to make Word docs hard to render properly outside of Word. I remember how easy switching to Linux would have been years ago if OpenOffice (LibreOffice) would just properly save and open Word docs. Same dirty tricks they have been using for decades to sabotage competition. I think Firefox had some issue recently with them treating Edge preferentially too. Really need some antitrust probes.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Microsoft-create-the-Open-Offi...

Maybe the Linux version is just there to check the "cross-platform" box.

Teams is garbage. Teams for linux is garbage to the 10th degree.

Little tangent. I was forced to use Webex once to meet with my national government's leading IT department.. That program will continuously monitor your microphone in the backgorund until you kill or uninstall it.

The reason ostensibly being that they can listen to little inaudible chirps that big "Webex" meeting screens in meeting rooms can blurt out to get you to connect to them faster.

Idiotic, frankly. That that made it to production is a symbol of how shit Webex is as a product. However much you might loath Teams, trust me, you'll find a new level of fury for Webex.

Does anyone know any of the Teams dev team? I’d love to see an AMA with them to understand just how something so terrible came to be.

It doesn't happen all the time for me, but when it does, I have to quit teams to get in-call audio to work again. I got in the habit of restarting teams after every call just because the next call wouldn't work 50% of the time.

What I love about Teams the most (/s) is how it forces you to take that little "tour" when first launching the app (and at random other times) where it makes you click to acknowledge every stupid little button in the entire bloated UI... See this here? Click and share your inspirational thoughts with your teammates! And see this little widget over here? This is where you go to tell Jenny at the front desk what you'll be having for lunch. FFS.

You can join Team calls in Firefox using Teams Phone Fix extension[0]. Then you can just close the tab and not have them listen. Teams wants you to install MS Edge browser with this add-on you can use FF anyway.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/teams-phone-f...

The number of bugs in teams is incredible.

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