I got my first taste of teams about a month ago. I had to install it on my personal laptop for a job interview. After installation, my laptop started displaying notifications encouraging me to renew my monthly subscriptions to Microsoft Office and Xbox Game Pass, things I haven't had a subscription for in over a year. It automatically set itself to start up with the computer which isn't unexpected. However I disabled the startup and it still launches when Windows restarts. Only solution was to remove it. I don't know why people waste their time using teams, it's such a trash app written by a trash company.
What I find most interesting about this is how long it took to see reporting on this issue, unlike what I remember the reporting on Slack being down 5 or 6 years ago that I could fairly reliably find somewhere that said it was down.<p>Has how we used these tools just changed? They are so janky in the first place that them being "down" is questionably different?<p>Just seems weird.
I wouldn't have realized this issue if a coworker wasn't looking at my screen, seeing the messages they had sent 10 minutes prior just popping up. There was no way I could have known they were late because the timestamps in Teams were the time I received the messages instead of the time the messages were sent. On his end there was also nothing indicating that there was a delivery problem.<p>At the very least Microsoft could have given us some system-wide notification that there were problems...
What's the correct status page to check?<p>I would have assumed this: <a href="https://status.office365.com/" rel="nofollow">https://status.office365.com/</a> but it shows nothing useful.<p><a href="https://portal.office.com/servicestatus" rel="nofollow">https://portal.office.com/servicestatus</a> At least this one shows there's an issue.
I am sheepishly going to chime in and say I recognize many of ms teams shortcomings but I actually cringe when I have to join meetings on zoom or god forbid, webex. Joining meetings in teams and sharing screen works decently well for me and I do it enough that I am fairly satisfied with it.<p>Could it be lighter weight? Yeah for sure. But I am definitely not running into the same issues that some people are seeing on this thread.<p>What I have recognized is that if you don't have teams installed and have to join a teams meeting via your browser, it might work like 10% of the time.
Teams is garbage in lots of other ways too. Recently, when I end a teams meeting from the browser (in chrome), it will keep a zombie process going that will hit 100% CPU. Luckily my laptop reminds me of this after a few minutes because the fans go to turbojet mode. Closing chrome doesn't kill it. And it's not enough to kill chrome in the task manager, because it will reappear when I start chrome again. I have to force stop it in the chrome task manager first.
Every time my wife uses teams on 2.4GHz wifi our home network goes down. Works fine on 5GHz. Of course there is already a thread about this from 2020: <a href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/microsoft-teams-crashes-my-entire-internet-connection-after/m-p/1454030" rel="nofollow">https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/micro...</a>
We started seeing signs of issues Wednesday and Thursday with messages being out of order or disappearing and reappearing. Today has been much worse. Not even able to send images (though thankfully gifs still work lol).<p>Not sure if it is related, but in the same time period, Microsoft Family Safety has been flaky. My son will request more Xbox / PC time, I’ll get the notification, but inside the app there is no request to approve. Or I’ll get another notification hours later.
I've been using Teams for a few years, at a small company with (in my admittedly parochial opinion) an uncommonly competent and diligent IT department, and it still vexes me. I've seen intermittent stuff along similar lines as this "outage" for as long as I've been using it, but the severity is normally such that it's just the tiniest bit of friction, easily overcome by our team's trust that we're not using it as an excuse to be unresponsive. Usually it works fine. Often enough that it's annoying, presence or meeting status refuses to update until I poke the UI hard enough, with "enough" seemingly varying with the phase of the moon. I sometimes watch the little circle in the corner of my icon wondering: is it enough to unlock my Windows desktop? To hover over the Teams window at all? To hover over something that forces it to redraw? To click the window and give it input focus? To reboot my DSL modem? Do the developers of the client (or the Azure message bus backend, or whatever alchemy they're doing over in Redmond) even know the answer?
Man, Microsoft is having a rough couple weeks given this too: <a href="https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/in-major-gaffe-hacked-microsoft-test-account-was-assigned-admin-privileges/" rel="nofollow">https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/in-major-gaffe-hack...</a>
It's inexplicable that a critical service such as Teams goes down in multiple geographies simultaneously - unless the root cause is an attacker who knew exactly where to push.