Microsoft Teams coming to Android Auto in February 2024
Microsoft has confirmed plans to launch its Teams app for Android Auto in February 2024, nearly a year after it was announced.
Why in the ever loving fuck would anyone want Teams in their car?!
I even don't know a single person who wants it on their computer.
If you use it for work, now you can count your commute as part of the work day.
That actually seems like a win win minus all the extra car accidents. A small price to pay for productivity
Employers will surely agree
Should be counted as it anyway.
Had a chat with a friend a while ago. She only has a 15-30 minute commute. Assuming the best, that’s still 2 hours and 30 minutes a week. That’s ten hours unpaid time a month.
If your company uses Teams in place of a traditional phone system (which is becoming more common) then being able to answer phone calls from that system in the car easily is definitely an advantage.
Mainly to catch a pointless meeting while I leave work instead of staying at work for the pointless meeting.
Id rather be driving home saying nothing than sitting at a desk saying nothing.
Sorry boss, but using Teams in the car violates the Safe Driving SOP so no I can't make the meeting
Ah yes that sounds like an incredibly safe idea.
Great. The one app I actively avoid all the times is chasing me around like a scooby doo villain now.
But why?
Meh, the reality is Android Auto is such a bad idea anyway.
Being dependent on auto manufacturers to keep their head units up to date is silly. They're terrible at this game.
Ever had a car with GPS? My Android phone has beat car GPS since 2006. I have a new car in the family, and it will never see a mapping update. Oh, they claim it will exist, but when? And for how much? And when the manufacturer of that hardware ceases operations, what then? We use it just to have a map up, and phones for actual nav, for voice directions.
Until we see open hardware in head units (so we can manage it ourselves), it will continue to be a shitshow. But we know manufacturers will never give up that control.
I thought the phone rendered the UI shown on the headunit and all it does is pass though the video and button presses. I haven't had a headunit update in 6 years and android auto is running the newest UI.
I really don't want to be available for work while I'm driving. At least give me that time frame for myself.
I can scare think of something I want less hahaha.
My dude, I want two things in my Android Auto, and two things only: Maps and Spotify*. That's it. Stop cramming stupid shit that can't be used while I'm driving, what the hell.
*swap it for your music player of choice.
Vii music is great as well.
No thanks. Keep the shitty electron app off my phone.
How is that safe? And some people actually use their commutes to not work.
Not my boss. He'll be on a teams call while driving to the office. I don't get it.
That thumbnail is cursed
They can't even make a decent version for Windows, a platform they control entirely. The Copilot keyboard key, now this. Strange choices coming out of this company lately.
skype
Apparently we haven't killed enough pedestrians yet.
damn microsoft why you have to threaten us like that
But why?
Time to hack my car if this is forced on it