*europeons was so close and yet you missed the mark.

I love the feature where I paste something into an email, and then it stops me typing by popping up a useless menu.

My second favourite is the one where you're typing, and suddenly it starts treating all your keypresses as shortcuts and deleting things. I love that.

And don't even get me started on Outlook search. I can no longer find any emails, even by typing in the things that were on them.

But hey, at least an admin can fuck it all up from one place!

My favorite feature is when there is a message in a chat you are already looking at and you have to click out of it and back in before the notification will go away

How about the feature where you get a notification that someone said something in a group chat but if you click on the notification it opens the private chat with that person instead?

Or the one where you enable recording a meeting and only after the meeting does it tell you that it couldn't actually save anything to OneDrive so there's no recording? That's some advanced UX engineering right there.

Or the one where it hides less used "applications" and decides that the only ones it should hide are the chat and the calendar. Not everyone can come up with that.

Or how it shows a banner telling you to update even if your client is company-managed and especially if you're using their web client.

FLOSS can't hope to compete at that level.

What about freezing and locking the whole system ~45 minutes in a meeting every time? Or hear me out, lets display the content of the window in the centered rectangle that takes 15-20% of window and it can be resized down but not up?

My favourite: It says you have an unread message. It won't tell you where. You need to go hunting for it.

More likely an amalgamation of several open source projects glued together with a bunch of proprietary stuff for Cisco hardware, desk phones, some weird PBX system and so on...

Hard to imagine it being worse than teams.

Teams is negative.
Shit is negative.
Absolute shit is positive.
Therefore absolute shit > teams.
Qed.

Unfortunately, LinkedIn patched that infinite money glitch in the latest Business Douchecanoe firmware update.

element. based on matrix

Matrix is fine with an alternative client. I use Commet, and it'd pretty much serve as a total replacement for Discord for me if not for the fact that nearly none of the communities I'm in are bridged there.

I spend half my day in meetings with colleagues, partners and clients and it adds a lot.

If the other person is speaking in a language where you are not native / fluent, seeing their mouth helps. I'm experimenting with AI-based live transcription (eww, AI, slop, I get it) but it only works real time with English at the moment.

If you are explaining something you can see if they are following, if they are skeptical about certain claims, etc. Many cultures are very conflict-averse and won't challenge you directly, or even ask for clarification.

And for me personally it helps me remember the person much better, and remember what we talked about last time when I see the face again.

I'd argue that is the opposite of futuristic, it helps our primitive brains work as they are used to.

It adds speaking to a new face in a corporate environment.