I uninstalled teams from my private device. I use it inside a virtual machine now since I do use my private device for work anyway. Having everything related to work within a virtual machine offers a good solution to separate stuff. Can be finicky with audio and video streaming, but on Windows Hyper-V offers that with quite good performance and it comes with Windows anyway. No excuse though, I think the prompt is heavily misplaced and I hope Microsoft can keep Teams decently lightweight.
I think the strategy isn't just being creepy, they want to advertise their device management in Azure and part of the advertising is filling the list of devices with unsuspecting victims.
> I think the strategy isn't just being creepy, they want to advertise their device management in Azure and part of the advertising is filling the list of devices with unsuspecting victims.
I don't understand like, who would want their private computers to be controlled by their school or work? It's not like Microsoft gains anything by that? If that would happen, even if I loved Microsoft before I would start to hate them if they take all my personal files and give them to my school/employer.
That is incredibly bad for privacy and I don't understand how that popup can exist or yet even continue to popup every couple of weeks. Especially with the defaults being that malicious.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 24.1 ms ] threadI think the strategy isn't just being creepy, they want to advertise their device management in Azure and part of the advertising is filling the list of devices with unsuspecting victims.
I don't understand like, who would want their private computers to be controlled by their school or work? It's not like Microsoft gains anything by that? If that would happen, even if I loved Microsoft before I would start to hate them if they take all my personal files and give them to my school/employer.
That is incredibly bad for privacy and I don't understand how that popup can exist or yet even continue to popup every couple of weeks. Especially with the defaults being that malicious.
The people who "want" it are the people who don't understand. For them, it may actually be a feature: Got a problem? Just call IT!