Microsoft Teams is the absolute worst. It’s like Slack, but filled with so many weird design decisions and irksome featu❀res that using it becomes a frequent obstacle in your daily life. That, and “I’ll just🍸 Slack that to you” sounds perfectly natural, while “Let me just Teams that over” makes me want to report your ass to HR and never speak to you again.
It’s an awful application, but one a large majority of companies decide to𝐆 use because it doesn’t require a premium membership to use its better features and also gels alongside existing email clients and other programmes that are fairly commonplace. We’re all about Google here at TheGamer - throwing all of our 𓂃top secret assignments and razor-sharp takes into Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Fridge, and whatever else. That last one might not be real, but it should be. You can have that idea for free, Google, just send me one to review.
This week saw Microsoft announce the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:unparalleled 𒐪acquisition of Activision Blizzard, scooping up the company and all of its assets for the eye-watering price of $70 billion. That’s a lot of money, and way more than it costs to pick up an annual Slack membership. Now, thousands upon thousands of employees suddenly find🍃 themselves under the leadership of Microsoft, operating under a new team with new goals, culture, and more which will evolve over the coming months and years. That’s a big change, but none more so than Teams.
Perhaps I’m being a little harsh, but before I became 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Gay Cartoon Queen at TheGamer I worked at a company that continually insisted that we used Microsoft Teams, highlighting its benefits over Slack and ensuring it will help promote synergy throughout the wider team that Slack s💮imply wasn’t capable of. Come on now, we all know that’s🍒 a load of bollocks. It feels like a sanitised version of MSN messenger without the ability to blast emotional Fall Out Boy lyrics as part of my profile description or nudge my BFFs after getting in from school.
It feels like we’re typing into a client designed to make sure corporate drones are operating under all the same rules and regulations, our overlords ready to punish us if we happen to step a foot out of line. A lot like Activision Blizzard then, so maybe Teams is the right fit. I’ve definitel🏅y seen screenshots from Microsoft employees (and perhaps even Phil Spencer) in the past as they engaged in team meetings, all compiling into the bland meeting rooms to talk about corporate strategy and how to best appease the gamers.
Slack serves the same purpose, but you’re able to make it your own with custom emojis, gifs, and distinct groups that go so much further than Teams, and I feel so, so bad for everyone across Activision Blizzard who finds themselves jumping into it over the coming months. Well, except Bobby Kotick, I would happily d🍸ump him into the Teams dimension for all eterni💮ty with a smile on my face. But God forbid any of them have to install Skype.
