MS has a history of flagrant abuse of user's privacy much before Win11, with Telemetry, Recall fiasco and Cortana, just try to analyze the traffic from MS Teams and you'll have hard time to find a bigger nosing spyware (Zoom as a Chinese cloaked is arguably close). Mindset of "anything goes" as long as it decorated with "nice sounding words and names" while under the hood is doing a mix of potentially quite nefarious things. I stopped at sanitized Win10 and can not trust that Win11 sanitation can hold (therefore won't switch to it likely ever and there is growing number of users like me). Once you start seeing this, you can't unseen it. Long term it is bad intent strategic direction that will end in loose-loose.
Just to add the poor UX on Teams, confused menus, latency, random weird bugs, non-ergonomic UI. Have you tried to make a bot to send messages ? It's a nightmare compared to "curl with token to url" of any other chat app. Who designs this horrible stuff, who tests it and who validates the tests ?
This looks like some inexperienced devs play with AI to make this product.
As usual it’s the end users and customers who have to do the testing.
I’m still annoyed that they fucked around with the webhooks by trying to force everyone to configure them through whatever “Power Automate” is, which introduced a whole bunch of permissions and ownership issues, not to mention the absolute dross of a UI. They kept sending emails and putting notices like “we hear that you despise this but stay tuned for updates!”, not to mention the hilariously short deadline.
Then they finally caved and said “oh, sorry. you can keep your old webhooks but you still have to go regenerate them”. And still today I get random emails saying “your power automate flow has a new URL”. It does? Why? I thought I threw that thing in the trash.
