@henningcbosch
Microsoft is so far off track as many people are complaining about the functionality of products such as Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365). With just me alone, I've noticed what might be considered a minor feature in Microsoft 365 no longer exists on the To Do Pane where it was very useful. The To Do pane Calendar in Office 2010 Outlook would have your Appointment/Event Dates Bolded so you could tell at a glance what dates had Appointment/Events where you had something to do. In later versions and in Microsoft 365 Outlook the bolding of the Appointment/Event Dates no longer shows on the To Do Pane Calendar but only when you select the Calendar function will you see it on the Calendar showing on that Function.
As far as Teams goes and your assessment that you can't tell this is a feature request or not. There are many people throughout this Forum Thread who are clamoring for Microsoft to fix this feature. Microsoft has claimed it is fixing this feature or adding it. Well guess what when they added it wasn't Full Screen and people still clamored for Microsoft to fix something Microsoft claimed was not working or an added feature. I believe I even made a feature request for it where it was indicated to make such requests. Microsoft is either ignoring the requests for Full Screen or they don't want to implement this feature. Microsoft can't seem to understand when you take up screen space with Control Buttons that appear permanently on the screen you don't have Full Screen. The user picture is an exception I would make I don't know about others.
As far as Windows being a manual usage platform. I automate tasks wherever it is reasonable. I schedule Backups to run I don't do manual execution of Backups as some people do apparently because they don't know how to automate that. Also Linux has the reputation of not having robust security which is a must for businesses. By the way most Businesses, especially large corporations, all use Windows primarily. You find the executives sometimes using Apple because the Executives apparently don't have the skill set to use Windows like their lesser employees have or they just used Apple products with the mistaken notion that Apple was superior to Windows and now they don't want to learn Windows despite the fact that Windows has a greater inventory of applications than Apple has. Also the world does a lot of its communications these days through email which is a manual process, so how would you automate a user generating an email. Possibly with Voice Recognition which is available on Windows Applications. But oh, there's a manual effort in launching the application. But oh, again Windows has voice recognition these days (though not perfectly implemented yet in my opinion).
But for Microsoft's migration of Office to the Cloud, I suspect the reason is more motivated by Microsoft's greed. Microsoft can make more Revenue with subscription based applications than it can with selling a perpetual license application such as Microsoft Office 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019. I got Microsoft Office 2010 in 2010 and was using it until just recently in 2020. I had no need to upgrade to anything else. With Microsoft 365 and other subscription applications, Microsoft has a steady revenue stream each month which it didn't have before. And with Cloud computing in Outlook 365, I notice that the process of opening a picture Attachment can take several seconds where as in a non-Cloud Computing application which is completely running on your local computer, the opening of a picture Application takes no time at all compared to the Cloud Application function. The first thing I noticed when I migrated to Microsoft 365 was that the cursor would seem to float across the screen instead of the way it used to move incrementally (for lack of a better word) and sometimes the cursor wouldn't move at all for several seconds. This was obviously because all the cursor commands such as when you type a character have to travel up to the Cloud Server and back down to the Client which can take time causing a lag or possibly the term might be latency effect. To do Cloud Computing in my opinion users need symmetrical bandwidth not asymmetrical bandwidth (Upload/Download Bandwidth must be the same and fast enough to prevent such lagging). Most consumer/home users do not have symmetrical bandwidth. Additionally Outlook has not upgraded its Security Support to using TLSv1.3 and still is using TLSv1.2 Security. I haven't heard of any plans to upgrade soon to TLSv1.3 which is the current level of TLS Security. Outlook apparently doesn't support, the last time I hear, two factor authentication or whatever GMail uses and you have to downgrade your GMail Email Account Security so applications such as Outlook will be able to connect tot he GMail Servers.
Microsoft also does everything it can to force its users to use Microsoft Accounts even when you don't have to use a Microsoft Account. Windows would make you think you had to create a Microsoft Account in order to create a Windows User Account because it misleads you in the User Interface into thinking you have to. Also, Microsoft can't even keep its Microsoft Accounts functioning properly. They are always becoming disconnected even though you haven't signed out of them. Window keeps asking you to enter your password again. I'm using a shared Microsoft 365 application and it keeps asking me to fix my Microsoft Account by entering my password for the person who I am using the shared application from. By rights I am not supposed to know the password of the person who is sharing their subscription with me.
So I would differ with your assessment that Microsoft was getting back on-track again. I am a long time user of Microsoft Products and I see a decline.
