Microsoft Teams hit by second outage in three days::Microsoft is investigating a second outage affecting Microsoft Teams users across North and South America in the last three days.
Didn’t they update Teams to a whole new platform recently and it turned out to just be a webpage rendered by edge?
That’s just the desktop client. They haven’t updated the mobile app and VDI versions and those were suffering problems too. It’s something on the backend.
Just azure being azure
I mean that’s not really any different from slack
Yes it is. Slack works.
Fair. Teams suck.
Oh yea. It’s been out years now and still feels like alpha software imo. It wouldn’t even be understandable if it was built as FOSS by 3 dudes.
The problem is that they combined three different pieces of software into one cheaply.
So it’s big, clunky and doesn’t often work.
Apparently they are trying to fix it, but we will see
Meanwhile, Skype* works well.
(*Not msComm/lync renamed Skype. We never mean that unless we say skype4biz or its codename Hot garbage)
Was it ever anything else? 4 years ago it was already a wrapped webapp.
This was last year, but they dropped electron for their in house chromium thing
https://petri.com/microsoft-teams-performance-boost-march/
So yeah, whatever this outage is has nothing to do with their webview stuff
Teams was electron app from the beginning, so basically a web page rendered in chromium
Really? Haven’t had the chance to check it yet because IT doesn’t let our machines do the switch to the new one, but I don’t know how to feel about apps/programs doing that more and more…
I think the old one was only a “website”. The new one does feel better and faster (except, it sometimes crashes while in a meeting (lol)) But don’t know if it is “real” app or just JavaScript
Edit: if you go to Task-Manager, you see, that it is like one app and multiple „MS edge WebView2“
Mine has crashed every day during meetings now and 3 times it took the audio driver with it so I had to do a full restart before being able to re join
😄my coworker had this as well just yesterday, I believe, he had to react using chat in the meeting, lol, such great software.
Yeah it’s a web app with some native tweaks for performance and local APIs
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/
The old one and the new one are both available as a web site and a desktop app.
No wonder I got so much work done yesterday…
Azure quality. :)
There’s a reason we call it “unsure”.
Quality azured
“We’re investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Microsoft Teams or features within North America, Canada, and Brazil,” Microsoft said via the company’s official Microsoft 365 status account on X (formerly Twitter).
A Lovecraftian horror, that sentence.
Imagine showing the headline to someone 10 years ago
How the mighty have fallen
What’s hilarious about it too is they have a teams/o365 server status site https://portal.office.com/servicestatus
But they seemingly don’t use it, because it showed everything is fine throughout the entire outage, maybe it requires Teams to update lmao
That’s why I was so productive yesterday! No one was bugging me on Teams.
Typical Microsoft. For awhile Teams was working. Maybe it wasn’t anyone’s idea of superstar software but it worked well enough, and integration with O365 made it tolerable. Then they decide to push their updated app to everyone and now it sucks donkey balls.
I lost spell check in the new version! Others still have it, so I’m not sure what happened. I even toggled spell check off and on in the settings.
The design behind the actual Teams portion is so backwards. Take private chat conversation flow, put that into Team channels, make threads the exception not the norm.
Great news!
This was yesterday tho. Dangit
A coworker of mine is experiencing issues in Germany as well (error messages that I’ve never seen). Wonder if they’re related to this.
No. Not M$ Teams was hit. All the users were hit.
We use Teams at work and we are very happy with it. Maybe it’s because I haven’t used other meeting software besides Facetime so I don’t understand why everyone hates it at Lemmy.
Because Lemmy has a hard-on for Linux and FOSS so loves to shit on Microsoft. I’m personally, albeit slowly, moving over to Linux but it’s not been a straight forward ride that people make out that it is. I often hit an issue and just reboot into Windows to get what I need done without having to spend hours troubleshooting.
