I don't like wall-mounting TVs at all. Don't you find them too high? Aren't you having to crane your neck upwards? When I'm lying on the sofa I like the telly to be at eye level, so just stand it on a TV cabinet.

Bought the wife and kids new Fire tablets to replace the tablets they got for Christmas 3 years ago which are now dog slow. Didn't really want to but they were half price. They use them for several hours a week so they're not bad value.

My uncle ran a successful hardware distribution business employing dozens of people for over 30 years. His motivation was to generate work, security, and happiness, for owner and employees. He could have been more profitable, but chose not to.

I'll have to tell him he spent his life devoted to a hobby

But then he was a socialist. Maybe we just think about business differently in Europe? Scott likes to label things, but I'm not sure it makes any difference.

Plus, I'm not sure if Teams works with metadata. Which is the kind of thing that frustrates me a bit with Teams - its a front-end for SharePoint, but a hobbled front-end. Meaning you keep having to select "Open in SharePoint" to do anything complicated.

But generally I find the advantages of "going all in" with Microsoft outweigh the disadvantages.

I've also found Teams getting used more and more by companies compared with Zoom. At the start of the pandemic it was all Zoom.

@travisdh1 said in 75 User Exchange On Prem vs. Office 365 Cost Comparison:

I've yet to figure out how to manage file shares in it properly. They all just get dumped into the same bucket and good luck finding what you need.

It's essentially just a front-end for Sharepoint isn't it? With each Teams channel being a Sharepoint site.

I have to confess that I've never had success using metadata to organise Sharepoint files and still organise everything into folders and sub-folders. I then regularly use Windows Explorer to manage those files and folders, which I find much easier than Sharepoint (poor) or Teams (terrible). IIRC, @scottalanmiller has preached against using folders in Sharepoint, but it's the only solution that has consistently worked for me. Maybe I'm just too old to learn new tricks, but I think Windows Explorer is an awesome application and hasn't been bettered (on Windows), despite its age.

@jt1001001 said in 75 User Exchange On Prem vs. Office 365 Cost Comparison:

@EddieJennings Handle it now while you can. We did not and let's just say its the wild west trying to wrangle it all back in

Is that a weakness of Teams though, or a weakness in internal controls, training and workflow?

@scottalanmiller said in 75 User Exchange On Prem vs. Office 365 Cost Comparison:

Very hard to see and follow alerts and conversations. A lot more clicking around and searching for messages than with other platforms.

I agree, as a messaging app it seems very poor and MS definitely need to work on this.

@scottalanmiller said in 75 User Exchange On Prem vs. Office 365 Cost Comparison:

Teams is actively really inefficient

How so? We're using it more and more, including to collaborate with external people and everyone seems to like it now they've got the hang of it.

My kids also use it all the time at school.

I'd like a dumbphone that runs WhatsApp as 99% of the time that's the only way my family and friends communicate with me. Carrying around a smartphone all day just in case someone WhatsApps me feels like overkill.

It's so rare that someone actually calls me or sends an SMS. And when my kids call me, it's always through WhatsApp as they barely understand the concept of non-Internet calling.

I wasn't, but don't focus on the actual amounts - they were just arbitrary figures. Although salaries in Europe are a lot lower than the US.

But my point was that a lot of employers are flexible and will make exceptions for good candidates, regardless of experience. Specifying a salary can cast the net too narrowly. Finding a good developer is hard over here, there aren't many available.