This isn’t new. I’ve seen similar banners in the past few years. And I complained to our IT team or my manager both times.
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2026
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The enshitification will continue until morale improves.
Gen A will be so used to enshitification that they won't be all down about it. I think you are wrong though, I think even if the morale is relatively improved, it will continue.
Correction: enshitification will continue regardless of morale.
Huh, I checked mine and it just had the three dots, then the "Unlock Premium" banner appeared after I had it open for a few minutes. I closed it and reopened and it only has the three dots again. Guess it waits to ambush you.
Other than it being M$ slop, what are the problems with it functionally?
I used to work at a place that has been using Skype group chats (lol) and just a couple weeks before that client left (call center, got moved to working a different company) they switched to Teams for group chat.
Now we only used a team wide group text chat and the supervisors would have separate chats for individual workers.
But the only thing I remember about it was that the emojis weren't animated like Skype and that the color of the UI looked kinda like the Discord default.
The problem is that they kept on forcing stuff into it till it became a bloated monster.
When teams was the replacement for Skype, it was pretty much just that, a chat and call app.
Now you have chats, calls, teams that are automatically their own SharePoint (not to confuse with the SharePoint sites themselves), contacts, calendar (synct with outlook, but completely different ui and functions), planner (not to confuse with to-do, stuff in the planer can show up in to-do, but not vice versa), power automate integration, power apps integration (that only work half the time cause of missing user rights), OneNote integration (at least that one still has its own app), and a plethora of different apps you can link.
The files in the individual teams take ages to load, the UI changes every few days for the sake of it, basic features break for no apparent reason, calls randomly don't connect, sound in and output breaks repeatedly.
Its a slow and cluncky mess of different apps tacked onto each other, just so MS can say that they have an app for that instead of forcing you to use the browser interface.
I have no idea what one note it share point are, but that sounds hellish.
They are now animated
Pay up pleb
Microsoft Teams users are extremely angry
FTFY, because I’d be pissed if I was forced to use teams too
I just see this:
On my screen it's a big button saying [ 💎 Unlock Premium ]
That's also amusingly where the menu is. I got really fed up with the response suggestion buttons yesterday because it felt really infantilising to me. Couldn't find the settings menu. Didn't expect [ 💎 Unlock Premium ] to mean "and other options" but hey... I'm no UI/UX professional.
Oh, wait... I am a UI/UX professional.