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Is there a Microsoft product that isn't?
To be fair, Teams is pretty bad even for MS. I've never seen something do so relatively little and still perform so poorly. When I switched jobs and got to use Slack it was like a great fog being lifted off of my being.
Excel, Active Directory, and to a somewhat lesser degree MSSQL.
Excel?! Have to respectfully disagree on that one.
What's wrong with excel?
Excel is great.
It does so much that people make it do what it shouldn't, and never think to explore technologies beyond it... Like a proper fucking database.
Then you get garbage business systems based on fragile excel sheets with bonkers macros and weird ETL pipelines to sync things.
And never try to deal with dates and timezones.Reminds me of my last job where I had to build a ridiculously complex excel spreadsheet that I copied a bunch of reports into to do scheduling because someone decided I didn't need access to the actual data...
It's an awful mix of half-assed approaches to things. Awkward syntax on everything and very poor at recognizing what types of data it is handling.
Open a CSV in a fresh Excel install. It will almost certainly mistake something for a date if the CSV is sufficiently large (unless the user is exceedingly explicit at changing settings for that particular CSV). It will reformat that data as a date, and as an added bonus, since Autosave is on by default, it'll save that reformatted data back into your CSV. Yes, settings can be changed to avoid these things. But why isn't it just designed better so as to avoid it altogether?
If that was just a natural side effect of spreadsheet apps, I could understand it. But LibreOffice Calc is a million times better at recognizing what types of data it is handling, so it seems to just be Excel's shittiness.
The fact that it also hasn't really changed beyond aesthetics since 2004 is just... wild.
Can confirm. I've sent csv files to my coworkers, and they've tried to tell me that the files I sent were invalid. It's because they opened up the file in Excel to look at it first, and Excel autosaved the reformatted data.
VS Code. That's it though.
You may know already, but you should try VSCodium. At least they took the Micro$hit telemetry out!
Ah yes, you're right.
I guess a better qualifier might be: closed-source Microsoft products tend overwhelmingly to suck.
VS Code is OK if you can't afford the JetBrains ultimate subscription. I never want to see a VS Code launch configuration again.
Fuck subscriptions though.
Visual Studio for live .NET debugging and the WPF live editor.
WSL was my gateway drug to Linux. It's neat. Until it isn't.
Powertoys too
Sadly I had to go the other way, from Slack to Teams. Oh the horror!!
How about Zoom to Teams?
For your sacrifices, I salute you
I have an old Microsoft brand thumb drive that fits perfectly into my ass and makes me nut every time
Excel?