Update Teams mobile app by October or lose your calendar

Teams mobile users now have even less time to update the app before older versions lose calendar access. Microsoft originally set a late-October deadline in its message, but we're guessing someone familiar with the impending demise of Exchange Web Services (EWS) had a quiet word. The date has been brought forward to the …

[Tom Chiverton 1]

"Why are we doing this ? Because fuck you."

[Anonymous Coward]

Gotta keep the spyware aspects up to date..

[Jou (Mxyzptlk)]

This is news-worthy?

On the mobile we are more at the mercy of automatic updates than anywhere else, for every app, that is the system behind it. Always force auto update. Why sticking to an old version, deliberately. It is the way that duopoly, here Apple and Google, and only a few gaul somehwere have no yet given up...

[steelpillow]

Unh?

Seems to me it's great reason not to upgrade. Am I missing something here?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Unh?

I have a company phone - that's where it lives. There is literally NOTHING on my personal gear that uses Microsoft (or Adobe, for that matter - I was using Affinity products way before Canva made them available for "free" - you need at least an account), and it's going to stay that way, if only because LibreOffice doesn't care about which platform I use to work to render pretty much the same.

As for calendars, I'm OK-ish with MacOS calendar. I am still not that impressed with Thunderbird's interpretation of it but I must admit it has improved over time to to now work reasonably well with caldav and carddav servers. That's what I use on Linux, and thanks to that very, very old chestnut called Open Standards it all works nicely together.

It also doesn't magically zap any rules I set up like Outlook did to me a week ago. Whammo, all of them gone, even though I used the web version of Outlook to set them up so they were definitely stored server side.

I guess that's why we're told the outlook is not so good..

[just4this]

I think you may be doing calandars wrong.

My calendar consists of dates that I’ve circled in red pen and…….

Future events that people are wanting me to do, that I probably won’t.

Past events that people were wanting me to do, that I defiantly didn’t.

[ecofeco]

Teams mobile? Like, on a phone?

Oh hell no.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Teams mobile? Like, on a phone?

I can't imagine how bad it would be on a smartphone, its bad enough on Windows 11.

[Jou (Mxyzptlk)]

Re: Teams mobile? Like, on a phone?

I can, and it works. Most important usage: "Oh, I forgot to set my status to offline".

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Teams mobile? Like, on a phone?

and it works

.. for a very loose definition of "works". If there's something that Microsoft can claim to be world class in, it's making a shockingly heaving mess of any UI.

The UX of Outlook on iOS is horrific, also because they avoided every possible opportunity to make it align with Apple UI guidelines. It's "usable" in the way the Google UI is in my Volvo, which must have been written by someone who only cycles everywhere, has a goatee, not a great affinity for soap and wears socks in his Crocs.

Grmbl.

[Jou (Mxyzptlk)]

Re: Teams mobile? Like, on a phone?

I only need that status thingy to work in teams mobile. For the rest I use a real computer. I have clumsy fingers, even on a PC with a good keyboard, if you check my past postings. Now take that to the phone-mini-screen-touch.

[sedregj]

Re: Teams mobile? Like, on a phone?

"make it align with Apple UI guidelines"

Have you tried to print something on an apple phone?

I've been doing IT for roughly 45 years and have dealt with some strange interfaces. Back in the day a GUI had a strip of menus with drop downs and you could generally find the function within a few seconds. My C64 ... blah blah etc

Nowadays we have far more sophisticated stuff: You get a horizontal strip of stuff, which might have a second level. You might have a series of three dots or lines at top right that might do something. How about an avatar ... with a menu or a whole new screen of screens of options (tabbed, naturally)

So you press a rectangle like icon and .... etc etc and then press the word Print - yes the Apple effort is just as shite as everyone elses's wankery. Its inconsistent and unintuitive. Why on earth is a trillion cow pat company unable to deliver a consistent and intuitive interface for something as simple as printing?

[DoctorPaul]

Re: Teams mobile? Like, on a phone?

Is that the Volvo that I recently saw a TV ad for? The entire advert featured an estranged daughter using Google to try and write a message to the father who walked out on her, not one single mention of the car's features or even that the advert was for a car really.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Teams mobile? Like, on a phone?

Apparently Volvo has gone Google the whole hog, but they don't tell you in the brochure or when you're buying the car that it requires giving up personal details two or three times before it works what they demonstrate and may leave you without at the most inconvenient moment. Technically that is blackmailing you for personal details, but try and make a regulator act on it.

The personal details are needed for:

- the Volvo remote control app (which you need because it gives you access to the one good feature of the car, remote controlled start of airco (no, not setting of any temperature, let's not make it really useful)

- the Google account; and no weaseling out with a fake name because in a few weeks it will claim you're not old enough to use the car interface and will demand ID to continue working

- the car's SIM, but that depends on the country. If you can buy a SIM in the shop without presenting ID like in the UK or in The Netherlands you will not be asked. Not Volvo's fault, that's just law but it would be more honest if this is stated upfront.

The last one is your ticking time bomb if you travel anywhere as the company behind the SIM appears to randomly pick countries it doesn't roam to. I spent a whole day driving in France without a working GPS (and no remote control airco, far worse) because of it. Next day it was all OK again. Thankfully I also have TomTom on my phone and that works fine, but it leads you to another discovery: Google has made damn sure that their interpretation of Apple Carplay is as inefficient with screen real estate as Microsoft normally manages but it works.

[CrazyOldCatMan]

Re: Teams mobile? Like, on a phone?

estranged daughter using Google to try and write a message to the father who walked out on her, not one single mention of the car's features

"Papa?"

"Nicole!"

Just sayin'..

[Bebu sa Ware]

cycles everywhere, has a goatee, not a great affinity for soap and wears socks in his Crocs.

Sounds not unlike Catweazle but I cannot imagine even he could make the dog's breakfast that Microsoft has managed.

[Anonymous Coward]

Teams diary functions?

I have in descending order of importance:

1/ The diary pinned to the kitchen wall and frequently updated by SWMBO. This is THE DEFINITIVE calendar.

2/ iphone calendar which gets updated frequently from 1 above

3/ A paper calendar / diary which also gets used to make short meeting notes

In case of an error in 2 or 3, immediately refer to 1 on pain of death

[Doctor Syntax]

Re: Teams diary functions?

I take it "an error" in 2 or 3 means "doesn't match 1".

[Doctor Syntax]

All those people using Outlook/Exchange don't realise that there's another world out here where S/W adheres to a long established open standard and calendars don't disappear because of a decision iby some magacorp's marketing dept.

[spireite]

Losing Teams mobile?

Surely, that's for celebration.......

You mean it's only older versions.... bugger.