I refuse to use zoom, for my kids' school or for work. To the point that I've turned down important meetings because of it.. There are plenty of alternatives.
In typical MS fashion their attention span drifted to another, internal competing product. (Teams)
I had a week-long meeting at their Redmond campus a few years ago and it was obvious that Skype was a goner. All they talked about was Teams vs. Slack.
Ditto for the WIndows phone. Most of the kids there (yes, kids) all had iPhones or Android.
One of the first street level mapping programs, Streets & Trips, was amazing before MS bought them and nerfed it. MS removed tons of features and would then sell a new version every year where they would add back a little bit of what used to be standard, but never as good as the original product.
Exactly what happened. Skype sucks so hard. I swear these tech companies hire idiots who are drugged out of their minds to do the UI.
When Skype started suggesting I become friends with total random strangers and started telling me who's friends with who, I was done. It's like they were inviting predators into my living room.
They think everything is a "social network" now. Give me back simple MSN Messenger or the similar older products, where I can add who I want without the apps input.
Yes, people won’t log on because of all the problems. Also we had a high level recording to send out that got nuked and even the higher level Cisco people couldn’t recover it.
Sooooooo many bad experiences with Webex over the years...the commercials refer specifically to the shit we had deal with...can you see my screen? 10min fixing screen issue....John, John, john!!!!!!! Your breaking up.....what? John!!! 15min and a phone call to John later...
Zoom is so easy the elderly can use it
Slack would have been amazing but they killed off what became screens. If you're a programmer, check it out. It's screen-sharing plus actual control sharing. So if im pair programming- I can let my coworker take control to type something and go back and forth. And it's not laggy or anything.
The growing influence of progressive socialists in that country had a direct relation to the cultural decadence (and cultural collapse) of Weimar society. I don't think the USSR was influencing them with regards to a policy, but they certainly supported progressive socialists in any way they could.
Loss of the war didn't help either, but events like Weimar Germany have many causes.
USSR did the same thing.
I refuse to use zoom, for my kids' school or for work. To the point that I've turned down important meetings because of it.. There are plenty of alternatives.
I'm not sure how zoom exploded into popularity.
Isn’t amazing how Chyna’s Zoom was timed perfectly to coincide with this pandemic?
I think zoom exploded because MS totally fucked up their management of Skype and the market was desperate for SOMETHING.
In typical MS fashion their attention span drifted to another, internal competing product. (Teams)
I had a week-long meeting at their Redmond campus a few years ago and it was obvious that Skype was a goner. All they talked about was Teams vs. Slack.
Ditto for the WIndows phone. Most of the kids there (yes, kids) all had iPhones or Android.
I’m a teacher in a very affluent area. It’s not uncommon to see kids with smartphones by the time they reach 10 years old.
Teams sucks tho
Microsoft always spikes the products they buy.
One of the first street level mapping programs, Streets & Trips, was amazing before MS bought them and nerfed it. MS removed tons of features and would then sell a new version every year where they would add back a little bit of what used to be standard, but never as good as the original product.
Exactly what happened. Skype sucks so hard. I swear these tech companies hire idiots who are drugged out of their minds to do the UI.
When Skype started suggesting I become friends with total random strangers and started telling me who's friends with who, I was done. It's like they were inviting predators into my living room.
They think everything is a "social network" now. Give me back simple MSN Messenger or the similar older products, where I can add who I want without the apps input.
True. Zoom offered simplicity and reliability over all other products, plus thumbnails of all participants in a single screen view.
Yes, people won’t log on because of all the problems. Also we had a high level recording to send out that got nuked and even the higher level Cisco people couldn’t recover it.
Sooooooo many bad experiences with Webex over the years...the commercials refer specifically to the shit we had deal with...can you see my screen? 10min fixing screen issue....John, John, john!!!!!!! Your breaking up.....what? John!!! 15min and a phone call to John later... Zoom is so easy the elderly can use it
Slack is excellent. Not sure why everyone jumped to Zoom, it had/has security issues as well.
Slack would have been amazing but they killed off what became screens. If you're a programmer, check it out. It's screen-sharing plus actual control sharing. So if im pair programming- I can let my coworker take control to type something and go back and forth. And it's not laggy or anything.
Pair programming is teh lame. I do not buy into it and like to work alone.
Germany had a tranny / child porn problem before Hitler took over. Was USSR influencing them? Kinda like how China is to usa?
its insane to me how prolific this was and how im JUST now learning about this. https://mjhnyc.org/gay-berlin-birthplace-of-a-modern-identity/
Just wait until you hear about the Sodomites.
It’s not that “history repeats itself.” It is that humans will always be tempted by sin. We will always make excuses to give into that temptation:
“It feels so good though.”
“It makes me happy”
“Everyone is doing it so I should be allowed to as well.”
Well they did have a growing communist problem, so if not the USSR directly then certainly their spiritual siblings were influencing them.
(((Bolsheviks))) gonna Bolshevik
The growing influence of progressive socialists in that country had a direct relation to the cultural decadence (and cultural collapse) of Weimar society. I don't think the USSR was influencing them with regards to a policy, but they certainly supported progressive socialists in any way they could. Loss of the war didn't help either, but events like Weimar Germany have many causes.