Microsoft Teams

Microsoft's Slack competitor

4.5•42 reviews•

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Microsoft's Slack competitor

4.5•42 reviews•

212 followers

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Microsoft Teams is the digital hub that brings conversations, content, assignments, and apps together in one place

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Following Facebook's public release of Workplace a few weeks ago, it seems that team communication is more competitive than its ever been. @corleyh and I were just chatting about this yesterday. It will be interesting to see how Slack moves into enterprise, where MS is so strong.

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10yr ago

Golden Kitty Awards 2016

@rrhoover Yeah. It is going to be interesting to watch as Slack, FB, and MS go head to head in this space. The piece that MS has that no one else in this group has is relationships with large enterprise accounts; those companies are already using and deploying MS products. Teams can become a feature or essentially one more product listed on an enterprise sales agreement. Buying and deploying Slack is a new product, new partner, new procurement process for these large enterprise customers. Add on to the fact that Microsoft operates subsidiaries in nearly every country in the world - where Slack is just building out their enterprise business. I am excited for the competition - competition is good. Consumers / Users win in that scenario. And I really believe Slack could be the winner - their product is fantastic! I just would not discount Microsoft's ability to do amazing work and ultimately play a role in pushing this space forward. I will definitely be watching this all very, very closely.

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10yr ago

@corleyh @rrhoover I'd also throw in a potential entrance into the game by the Big G, who has done quite well with small and medium businesses with Google Apps (or G Suite as they seem to call it these days). They could be really significant players in this if they so choose to enter the fray.

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10yr ago

@corleyh but u are discounting Fb's 😝

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10yr ago

Golden Kitty Awards 2016

@sandrojazzar I am. I think FB may see growth from less developed countries where their digital life is done 100% on the phone and starts with FB. FB is consumer first. I was at MS when the shift was made from a consumer company to an enterprise one...its hard. FB can totally do it, but its not their strength nor is it their primary focus. Whereas the Enterprise is where MS now leads the back. And this is Slack's business. So, yes - I am discounting FB in this space. Just like I discounted Goggle+ when it launched. (Different products, but some underlying logic).

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10yr ago

Todoist

@rrhoover @corleyh I wonder how the paradigm of IRC can work with Entreprise. It's already pretty difficult to make sense of Slack's overload of information. I can't imagine how that works with 500 people but a day spent scrolling the app instead of actually getting stuff done. I'd love to see something really new in the team communication space.

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10yr ago

Abe AI

Part of me feels like I should refuse to support this product. It's such a clear rip-off of slack and furthers the wedge between me and MS. Having said that, its MS they can turn any half baked piece of software into a hundred million dollar business so why not.

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10yr ago

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@robguilfoyle I think MSFT followed the thought process of Instagram. They could either be SUPER late to market with a clearly inferior product, or base it on what is going well in market and then tune it according to their own IP. Does this make people like what they are doing? No, but if you're stuck using a MSFT stack at work (lets say Slack isn't allowed), this is a highly preferable option. https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/0...

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10yr ago

LongShorts Stories

@robguilfoyle I guess it's like saying General Motors ripped off Ford a hundred years ago... it doesn't feel good at the time to have a competitor to something very unique (like Slack, like the first car, etc.) pop up, but years down the line (or maybe even months), everyone will be better off because of it. Running a small business, I (happily!) pay Slack thousands of dollars a year: if there's an alternative that can save my company and investors money, it behooves me to take advantage of it. Not to mention that while Slack did something amazing (and continues to), they don't own a monopoly on innovation in enterprise messaging; it's not a romantic startup story, but the product managers and engineers at big bad Microsoft have just as much to contribute as a small company does, you just have to believe!

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10yr ago

Do I see threaded replies in that screenshot? That's something I would love to see in Slack... Can't quite tell from the screenshot but it looks like there's a reply link under each comment and one comment has an actual reply that seems to be grouped. Unless Slack already has this for Mac in the new release, I've always been hoping for something like that.

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10yr ago

I love this: Open Letter from Slack to Microsoft. https://slackhq.com/dear-microso...

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10yr ago

Teespring

I hate to be such a designer cliché but this conversation view is a dealbreaker for me. There's so much unnecessary visual detail.

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10yr ago

Vimeo

@conwayanderson i completely agreed. Feels over designed and not very conversational at all. Feels more like a bulletin board.

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10yr ago

Akin to browser wars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br...) between Netscape and Internet Explorer. Why not co-release with the Linkedin brand and include Linkedin login?

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10yr ago

How about it's app integrations? Same with Slack? Slack is awesome because of it's numerous integration.

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10yr ago

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Review Microsoft Teams?

Reviewers largely see Microsoft Teams as a dependable hub for work: chat, meetings, channels, file sharing, and calendar setup are easy to handle, especially for teams already using Microsoft 365, Outlook, SharePoint, and mobile access. People repeatedly say it keeps communication organized and reduces email back-and-forth. The main complaints are familiar too: a cluttered interface, overwhelming notifications, lag during calls, slow loading, heavy memory use, and occasional sync issues after updates. Founder feedback also suggests Teams is widely used as an integration point for notifications, surveys, interviews, and pasted AI text.

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