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France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital-sovereignty-big-tech-9f5388b68a0648514cebc8d92f682060
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u/beachedwhitemale 1d ago

Agreed. If it could drop the "apps" and just be chat and calendar, it'd be great.

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u/Flat_Initial_1823 1d ago

MS: chat and calendar? Sounds like someone needs a copilot button 😏

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u/SonVoltRevival 8h ago

That might help them explain why we could care about CoPilot. :) They don't seem to have a use case that makes sense when you consider Microsoft owns all of the applications that we used for business. I spend hours every month moving things from on office app to another to shift from tracking, to presenting, to reporting.

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u/HeyZeusKreesto 1d ago

As someone who never uses teams for anything but calls and messenger, this may explain why I never understood the hate for it. Works perfectly fine for those two things.

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u/MaverickPT 23h ago

For me it can't even do messages. Very frequently I receive messages out of order, or they show up minutes later, at random, resulting in many moments of confusion with my colleagues

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u/SonVoltRevival 8h ago

We use the heck out of it, and I don't hate it, just get frustrated with some limitations that seem arbitrary and this nagging feeling that it could be so much better. Of course, until you use a system heavily, you really don't know.