Redmond calling...
Cue meetings, and more meetings, at Redmond.
What, no Lync video conferences about it?
A fresh version of Windows Mobile 10 has wobbled off Redmond's servers, and landed on devices enrolled in the Windows Insider programme. There are no major surprises in Build 10549, which is an incremental update. It remains a mishmash of UI styles and experiments, and rebuilt apps that fall far short of the functionality of …
Lync is one of the single worst communication systems I have ever seen. The UI is painful, it has no way of doing message store-and-forward if the recipient is unavailable, history gets lost, no syncing of convos between multiple devices (in fact, if you're signed in multiple times, you have to check ALL your devices to find out which one got the message), and all file transfer and streaming services are completely broken on the mac version.
I wouldn't use Lync if it was available for free, never mind willingly paying money for it.
The UI is painful
Ooh, ooh...I got one...
Don't forget to mention the modal dialog that helpfully informs you that "your organisation does not allow Lync access from outside the network". Yes, I know, you fecker, that'd be because I have just resumed from sleep and the OS hasn't reconnected yet. But thanks for giving me a great big blocking dialog pointing out the obvious, that I now have to close before I can continue. Because closing the dialog once connectivity's established 5 seconds later would be too convenient.
Totally agree with you. Hateful app.
I would not call it bad but 2013+ UI got worse, the metro style worse: bland and painfully flat (and MS keeps preaching this). Try to grab/drag the window and you may get lucky (if you figured out the active part of the window). And it lags, feels almost as if the UI was rendered remotely, somewhere in MS cloud - really odd when IM text barely keeps up with you typing it.
And the app seems to have bad habit of locking out user account.
Still better than IE.
Lync, Skype et-al shit is purely because some fuckstick decided to kill messenger. At what level of numbnuttedness do you decide to kill a perfectly good, functional service like messenger and then fuck it all up with Skype and lync...
MS really are reaping what they have sown....
I only used Lync a bit while at some place somewhere, seemed fine but I was hardly a power user.
The thing is, if MS share price is twice what it was 5 years ago and 6% above what it was a month ago (FWIW which is not much), then do they care? - someone, somewhere (and others) appear to be perfectly happy with what they are doing and (presumably) where they are going.
I would like to see Skype improved in terms of speed and responsiveness but I don't use it enough to worry - I do know that messages appear on all the devices (3 in my case) running it.
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