I was legit baffled by how such a shit peace of software could become so ubiquitous – until I got to know SAP and realized that Teams isn’t even in the bottom half of enterprise software quality.
I thought SAP was shit until I worked with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, an ERP from alternate 1990s hell dimension. It has a built-in IDE that uses its own language called C/AL (syntactically similar to Pascal). The only source control is developers’ ability to lock files they are working on. And the code editor is worse than notepad. Seriously, it does not allow to select or paste multiple lines, and in general, acts as if each line is it’s own textbox. Forget about syntax highlighting or anything else other than black text on white background.
And, AFAIK, if your company needs to customize it, you are required to hire a “Microsoft-certified” NAV developer.
Allow me to regale you with a tale of Sun Identity Manager and XPRESS. A strange mangling of xml and pseudo javascript-esque pile of shit used for identity transformations for disparate systems.
On second thought, let’s just not. I’d rather let that PTSD inducing memory slowly fade away, much like SunIDM did after Larry bought them to poach their customer base.
Have you tried webex? It’s like teams but on dumb-‘roids, the notifications are shot, the messages always pull your taskbar up, calls always get routed to either the wrong input or output, calls drop half the time… and the list goes on and on…
Teams
Oh, you’re going to update without notifying me and then not restart?
You truly are the paramount of usefulness, Teams.
Thanks, I hate it.
I was legit baffled by how such a shit peace of software could become so ubiquitous – until I got to know SAP and realized that Teams isn’t even in the bottom half of enterprise software quality.
A someone who has used and supported teams, WebEx Skype and crazy shit I don’t even remember anymore, Teams is downright reliable and user friendly.
I thought SAP was shit until I worked with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, an ERP from alternate 1990s hell dimension. It has a built-in IDE that uses its own language called C/AL (syntactically similar to Pascal). The only source control is developers’ ability to lock files they are working on. And the code editor is worse than notepad. Seriously, it does not allow to select or paste multiple lines, and in general, acts as if each line is it’s own textbox. Forget about syntax highlighting or anything else other than black text on white background.
And, AFAIK, if your company needs to customize it, you are required to hire a “Microsoft-certified” NAV developer.
Allow me to regale you with a tale of Sun Identity Manager and XPRESS. A strange mangling of xml and pseudo javascript-esque pile of shit used for identity transformations for disparate systems.
On second thought, let’s just not. I’d rather let that PTSD inducing memory slowly fade away, much like SunIDM did after Larry bought them to poach their customer base.
Can concur. We have NAV at work and holy fuck it’s awful.
On the plus side it has a 16 colour palate.
That’s simultaneously horrifying and not at all surprising.
Have you tried webex? It’s like teams but on dumb-‘roids, the notifications are shot, the messages always pull your taskbar up, calls always get routed to either the wrong input or output, calls drop half the time… and the list goes on and on…
It is not great, but however with WebEx, at least it comfortably runs in the browser without consuming all the CPUs.
Yes, I have. Thanks for dumping salt into that wound.
The entirety of Office365 has become crap, especially the online version.
The online version means I don’t ever have to boot into windows to use all the M365 stuff at work, so it gets a “thanks Microsoft!” from me.