One click away from losing control of my computer thanks to Microsoft Teams

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I uninstalled teams from my private device. I use it inside a virtual machine now since I do use my private device for work anyway. Having everything related to work within a virtual machine offers a good solution to separate stuff. Can be finicky with audio and video streaming, but on Windows Hyper-V offers that with quite good performance and it comes with Windows anyway. No excuse though, I think the prompt is heavily misplaced and I hope Microsoft can keep Teams decently lightweight.

I think the strategy isn't just being creepy, they want to advertise their device management in Azure and part of the advertising is filling the list of devices with unsuspecting victims.

> I think the strategy isn't just being creepy, they want to advertise their device management in Azure and part of the advertising is filling the list of devices with unsuspecting victims.

I don't understand like, who would want their private computers to be controlled by their school or work? It's not like Microsoft gains anything by that? If that would happen, even if I loved Microsoft before I would start to hate them if they take all my personal files and give them to my school/employer.

That is incredibly bad for privacy and I don't understand how that popup can exist or yet even continue to popup every couple of weeks. Especially with the defaults being that malicious.

> I don't understand like, who would want ...

The people who "want" it are the people who don't understand. For them, it may actually be a feature: Got a problem? Just call IT!

Until you graduate or change place of employment

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