Retirement of Office 365 connectors within Microsoft Teams

by _lateralus_on 7/9/24, 12:11 PMwith 14 comments
by Dachande663on 7/9/24, 12:50 PM

Teams is already chaotic for development. The documentation mixes between multiple deprecated versions already. This is just going to add to the chaos. It feels like there is no-one at Microsoft responsible for "Teams" as a product. Instead it's the bastard orphan that gets bits given and taken away as each department takes a swing at it. At this point, I would genuinely say it's the current most hated Microsoft product in daily use. And for good reason.

by opjjfon 7/9/24, 12:29 PM

Love the comments under the post :) For me it means no more notifications in Teams, as our organisation policy blocks all the useful workflow features.

by heisgoneon 7/9/24, 12:48 PM

I miss the good old time when software was shipped in a box and developers couldn't simply remove features with a commit.

by hypeateion 7/9/24, 12:48 PM

I really don't know how you can enshitify and mess up a chat application so badly. The web version of Teams fails to even load in Firefox for unexplainable reasons.

The desktop app isn't much better either - it's slow, buggy, and the text editor absolutely blows if you're trying to do more than write a sentence or two.

by _lateralus_on 7/9/24, 12:12 PM

they're pissing on us without even the courtesy of calling it rain

by nhanceon 7/9/24, 8:58 PM

Well there's definitely a lot more functionality in Power Automate:

https://www.connectorreview.com/

by valleyjoon 7/9/24, 12:51 PM

Is the an EU regulation response thing? The article doesn’t mention that but I’m not very familiar with this offering so I wasn’t sure.

by greatgibon 7/9/24, 12:45 PM

I guess that you will be forced to "pay per use" with power automate...

by tomrodon 7/9/24, 12:27 PM

This angers me a bit. I use O365 connectors all the time. They've been very useful.

What is workflows? Why is that REPLACING these instead of just, you know, being available as a totally separate product that I don't want to migrate to? Why can't I have the software grandfathered in?

I hate obvious resume-driven development and products.