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it can poll motion tracking data from my peripherals - dozens of sensors on each tracker, headset, and controller - thousands of times each second,

it can use all of that information to transmit an idealized version of myself to 10, 20, sometimes 30 or more other people all over the world, in less than a tenth of a second,

it can render their avatars and project them directly to my retinas at 120 hertz, giving me the illusion of motion, of reality,

it can do all of that with off the shelf consumer-grade hardware.

and yet, on the same machine, microsoft teams takes 10 seconds to draw its ui in slow motion whenever i try opening an office document in its shitty web browser ass approximation of an application what the FUCK microsoft


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trust me when i relate to you that Microsoft was selling a lot of software that was this bad or worse way before they considered using chromium.

the thing you said is a real and serious problem but Microsoft specifically (among a few others, like zendesk) are perfectly able to make things terrible without it

idk i've been using said software for about 20 years and none of it has been this bad in terms of perceived performance vs resources available save for maybe outlook without cache mode enabled

but yeah it's not a microsoft exclusive problem, teams is just a very egregious example

they didn't used to sell it to the public is the kicker. it's the enterprise software for little hourly work slaves to track work and do data entry in: software like zendesk's ticketing thing could be absolutely fucking atrocious in 2011 or so, and around 2015 Microsoft's automated incoming ticket system for datacenter management, SCSM, was maybe even worse. we're talking about window forms that would not stop resizing and re-layouting for like 15 seconds after they're opened and if you try to do anything before that it can break. also nominally you're supposed to be able to do some actions in bulk but if you select too many that action gets applied to the wrong items.

i would honestly argue that teams is the same story: it's purchased software, sold to c-suite based on a slide deck of its feature set. no sane person would ever actually use it of their own accord, but the people shelling out huge sums of money to license it for their company's use almost never have to. as long as it's possible to eventually achieve some approximation of a task in the software in reality, that's good enough and nobody ever checks or cared if it's actually even remotely usable