• @[email protected]
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    19112 days ago

    MSN messenger died for Skype

    Skype died for Teams

    We’re not on a great trajectory here

    (Yes Lync too, but everyone was pleased about that)

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      12 days ago

      What most people don’t know about the ouroboros is that every time the creature eats itself it becomes a little bit closer to being a turd (a consequence of its peculiar metabolism) so even though from an inside perspective the system appears to be in a complex mysterious cyclic kind of stasis, from the outside it is just more and more obviously a turd in the shape of a donut.

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          I am not sure I remember anymore, I have eaten my tail one too many times.

          I don’t think this is a direct meaning of the metaphor, though any metaphor of endlessly repeating cycles can be placed in a rhetorical framework where it represents enshittification so I am sure I am not the first person to add or tweak the metaphor with that context.

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        5612 days ago

        Teams

        New Teams

        Teams (New)

        Teams with Copilot

        Copilot Teams

          • @[email protected]
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            1011 days ago

            By “coexist” we mean being installed side by side with barely distinguishable icons, and when you try to log into the wrong one with the wrong type of Microsoft account (where the login mask looks exactly the same), it throws a helpful error message saying “this account does not exist”.

    • @[email protected]
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      2312 days ago

      Teams dying doesn’t sound too bad either. Just hoping the next iteration isn’t even worse

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        611 days ago

        Next iteration will be “Copilot for Teams”.
        Whenever you get a message, Copilot will auto-send an answer unless you click “no” in a popup without window decorations, showing a timer.
        On Windows Pro, you can disable this with a registry key, but that resets with feature updates.

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          211 days ago

          You know, if copilot also joins morning meetings for you while you sleep, that’s a deal I’m willing to make

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      412 days ago

      Did it die, though? Last time I had to use windows for work (shudder) the Teams app process name was lync.exe. Or was it Skype?

      Either way, shit’s still around.