Microsoft Teams's UI is Broken
Why was I late to the meeting, boss? Good question. Let me walk you through the steps I had to take to get here:
- Get notification of Teams meeting starting
- Click link in Slack
- Get redirected to Teams
- Get a banner saying "Select Allow to let Microsoft Teams use your mic and camera." It already has permission. It has had permission since I started using this laptop, three years running. Also there is nowhere to allow this permission, because, as I said, it already has permission.
- Click on screen to clear that banner
- Get the "Join the meeting" screen
- Click "Join Now"
- Several times. It does nothing.
- Click the "Sign in" button at the top banner, cause heaven forbid the login I did yesterday stick around
- Get redirected twice
- Get dropped into a random meeting's chat. (It's never the meeting I was trying to join)
- Go to calendar page
- Sometimes get a notice asking me to grant calendar access. (It's had calendar access for as long as it's had mic and camera access.)
- Wait for Teams to load
- Click "Join" on meeting
- At this point I'm back on the "Join the meeting" screen, and get a Helpful(TM) popup that someone has started the meeting I wanted to join in the first place. This always comes up now no matter how long ago someone actually started the meeting I'm joining.
- Click "Join now"
Is it any wonder I freakin' hate Microsoft products?