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technology1 year ago

"Microsoft Teams Introduces Custom Emoji Testing"

Microsoft employees discovered a new custom emoji feature in early internal versions of Microsoft Teams after animated emoji of Pepe the Frog started appearing, alongside other custom emoji not currently available. While Pepe the Frog has a troubled past and was co-opted by white supremacists, it is now widely used innocently and as a reaction meme in platforms like Twitch. Microsoft Teams currently only supports official Unicode emoji, but the addition of custom emoji is in early testing and may be rolled out to all users at some point this year.

via The Verge|
#communication-platform#custom-emoji#internal-testing
technology1 year ago

"Global Outage: Microsoft Teams Frustrates Thousands with Service Disruption"

Microsoft Teams experienced a widespread outage, affecting thousands of users and prompting frustration on social media. The company identified a networking issue and initiated failover operations to mitigate the impact. Despite some improvements in the EMEA region, users in North and South America continued to experience issues. Microsoft's ongoing optimization efforts aimed to reduce customer impact, but users reported delays in message delivery and other problems. The outage affected the company's widely used workplace-communications platform, which has seen rapid growth since its introduction in 2017.

via MarketWatch|
#communication-platform#microsoft#networking-issue