[HN Gopher] Microsoft Teams; using one monopoly to aid another
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       Microsoft Teams; using one monopoly to aid another
        
       Author : dijit
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2022-02-02 17:34 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | arkad wrote:
       | I wonder what would need to happen to convince the management
       | that actually they could run on Linux? I mean, 3 years ago the
       | belief was we couldn't work from home because that would harm
       | productivity.
        
         | badrabbit wrote:
         | To do what? Corporate endpoints? I like linux but they can't.
         | Servers? Already do and should. But 2022 will be the year of
         | the Linux desktop.
        
       | prometheus76 wrote:
       | Here's another fun path I went down: I was wondering why
       | contractions were always marked as misspellings. Wanted to edit
       | the dictionary. Can't do that. Turns out, Microsoft Teams has an
       | undocumented hard-coded link to the dictionary from Chromium
       | builds and uses that for its dictionary. You can turn off spell
       | check, but there's no custom dictionary, and there's no way to
       | edit the dictionary.
       | 
       | I'm convinced that Micorosoft Teams was written by a bunch of
       | interns in three months at the beginning of quarantine so that
       | they could compete for all the work-from-home crowd.
        
         | guhidalg wrote:
         | Teams was available before the pandemic.
        
         | mikestew wrote:
         | Except Teams existed before things got all COVIDy. Back then I
         | even defended Teams when we had just moved off Slack. I mean,
         | it wasn't great and the Mac client blows goats, but it gets the
         | job done.
         | 
         | And then we all started working from home, and using Teams for
         | more than just a glorified chat app. _That 's_ when it became
         | evident to me that my defense of Teams was way unwarranted.
        
       | huitzitziltzin wrote:
       | Straightforward antitrust violation. This is exactly what they
       | got in trouble w/ in the 1990's w.r.t. bundling IE w/ Windows.
       | But they know exactly what they are doing. They aren't unaware of
       | the fact that this a violation.
       | 
       | There is a lot of complaining on this site about various FAANG
       | members' anticompetitive behavior (some of it uninformed!), but
       | you all need to make room in your hearts for an M in that acronym
       | when you're talking about antitrust issues, because this behavior
       | is anticompetitive.
        
         | jbluepolarbear wrote:
         | Why isn't Microsoft counted in the FAANG? Isn't Microsoft and
         | Apple neck and neck for worlds most valuable companies?
        
           | detaro wrote:
           | because FAANG is originally a stock market term for (at the
           | time) hot tech stocks, and Microsoft was already old and
           | boring.
        
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