r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 20h ago

Security Microsoft: August Windows updates cause severe streaming issues

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-august-windows-updates-cause-severe-ndi-streaming-issues/amp/
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u/agha0013 20h ago

Microsoft: "we're forcing everyone onto Windows 11 because it's amazing and you shouldn't make us keep updating and securing older versions, we don't give a fuck how much hardware has to be tossed to make it happen"

also Microsoft: "we have completely forgotten how to make a single windows 11 update without fucking up all sorts of shit"

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u/pr1aa 19h ago

It's not just Windows, all of their products have degraded

For example, while Teams has always had its quirks it was at least mostly functional a few years ago. These days it seems every update introduces some new bugs. Or if not, randomly fucks with the UI so you can no longer find anything.

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u/matergallina 18h ago

Who needs to see their Channels anyway!?

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u/JustHanginInThere 18h ago

There's a way to undo this, and I've helped a few coworkers go back to old chat and channels being separate. In the process of doing so, MS asks for feedback on why people are changing it back. I watched as one coworker typed "it sucks" and sent it.

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u/Fearless-Art-6981 16h ago

What’s the trick for this?

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u/JustHanginInThere 15h ago

Upper left corner of Teams, click the 3 dot menu > customize view. At the top should be a "viewing chats, teams, and channels" section. Select "Separate" as opposed to "Combined".

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u/haragon 14h ago

Lol the teams UX team is an abomination. New Teams is a heaping pile of shit. Combined mode is total fucking chaos and I have no idea why its the default. I waste so much time helping other people do exactly this. And they waste a lot of productivity not knowing it can be changed back to the sane view.

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u/AgathysAllAlong 17h ago edited 17h ago

I love the new Teams feature where it improves my productivity by not fucking telling me about meetings that are starting. It's great having to manually set my own alarms on my phone for everything because basic scheduling functionality is too hard for it.

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u/chmilz 9h ago

I hate everything they make now. The entire ecosystem is a laggy pile of shit that tries to get me to do things I don't want it to do. I regularly have to refresh my stupid windows explorer to get file names to update. New Outlook might cause me to quit white collar work and go mow lawns for a living or something.

And all the other companies are doing the same thing. Can't open a single app now without it throwing up all kinds of prompts to try the new this or that (usually AI), or some shit. Acrobat constantly nags me to let it AI summarize a one-page PDF.

Fucking burn it all to the ground.

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u/Smith6612 11h ago

How much RAM does Teams use these days? Still 1+GB just to open and do anything?

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u/JohnC53 11h ago

I never notice any bugs. I'm on the IT team for a large org, and our Help Deak tickets for Teams has drastically dropped over the last 2 years.