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[-] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's ironic that a company that was well regarded for the quality GUI on their OS is so fucking bad atmaking GUIs now.

Teams, Windows Settings, Azure, even the Microsoft login page, it's all godawful.

[-] anguo@lemmy.ca 15 points 7 months ago

I'm sorry, when was Microsoft praised for their GUI?

[-] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 11 points 7 months ago

Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP and 7 are generally regarded as having great UIs.

Of course, we know what happened later:

https://mastodon.social/@danluu/111802159638869338

[-] eveninghere@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago

You mean, like when MS GUI was praised for Me and Vista's un-usability? /s

[-] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 6 points 7 months ago

I maintain that Metro was a very good mobile UI.

[-] otl@apubtest2.srcbeat.com 2 points 7 months ago

It's ironic that a company that was well regarded for the quality GUI on their OS is so fucking bad atmaking GUIs now.

Teams, Windows Settings, Azure, even the Microsoft login page, it's all godawful.

There's some new tech called "Large Language Models". Apparently this lets people, including programmers, work way faster. These so-called LLMs can ingest our own natural instructions, like "make me a UI which is not totally fucked", or "refactor this dogshit code which we only keep around because it makes us more money than we know what to do with"! Not only that, the LLM will actually respond with code!

And more code is exactly what the software industry - nay, the whole entire world - needs. Astonishing.

I'm 100000% confident that Microsoft has not heard of this amazing tech, otherwise we would not see such a total shitshow.

[-] Wizzard@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago

Jesus, $20/user/month seems excessive. But def a neat tool.

[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 6 points 7 months ago

Slack does it for free, at that price you can probably afford the Slack subscription instead of using Teams

[-] RonSijm@programming.dev 6 points 7 months ago

4.2 (5 ratings)

5 ratings... doesn't really seems like anyone is actually using this. The $20/user/month is probably a hail mary of "Lets throw this product out there, and if just one company with like 100 users accidentally enables this thing, we're good"

[-] Fades@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Fuck MS Teams, absolutely shit.

[-] iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Since the "new" version it has been shit. Typical big enterprises to break something the users like.

[-] otl@apubtest2.srcbeat.com 4 points 7 months ago

Huh wow didn't know Teams didn't have multiple screen sharing. Nice work.

Something does irk me about the whole approach, though. We have accomplished some amazing stuff in the software world. But Jesus almighty we have some serious interoperability problems, to the point where we literally just send pixels to one another because that's all we've got. Reminds me of that glib statement "the web has become just 4 websites full of screenshots of each other" (or however it goes).

[-] alienabductionsg@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the link! My company has been looking for something like this for YEARS, we're definitely gonna give it a look

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