Microsoft Teams

Name: Microsoft Teams
Rating: 4.55 (42 reviews)

Microsoft's Slack competitor

4.5•42 reviews•

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Microsoft's Slack competitor

4.5•42 reviews•

213 followers

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Team collaboration software

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Virtual office platforms

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Messaging apps

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Meeting software

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

Launch tags:Web App•Productivity•Tech

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For a moment I thought they'd added nested channel groups, but no - this is how they're showing teams. In that respect I prefer Slack's listing each team down the sidebar. Be interesting to see what else it can do though.

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10yr ago

Interesting to see if it really takes off, I've heard anecdotally from a few microsoft-based teams that already use Slack. The key will be in how they differentiate themselves. I think the main thing may be security, Slacks reputation ain't too good in that respect

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10yr ago

Sadly in cod19 quarantine teachers have to choose Teams over Slack/Google Classroom/Zoom With the huge amount of demand its being shown that bad configurated Teams rooms give a lot of power to inconscient kids. The bad of this software increases when 12 years old kids learn they can even kick their teachers out of rooms, i have seen privately a lot of conscient abuse of Teams permissions which shouldnt even be allowed by software restrictions to educational use

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6yr ago

Virtualbadge.io

Slack is still my favourite app for in-company communication. It's easier to use, and Teams tends to have a lot of bugs and it's not very easy to manage when you're a first time user.

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5yr ago

Does this have any benefit over Slack?

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10yr ago

UbiMeet

@maxwell_nelson my guess is that it'll have tighter integration with the MS ecosystem. Check out that "meetings" tab on the far left.. add in stronger sync with office365 and this seems pretty compelling for an enterprise.

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10yr ago

@afhill I just don't know what office365 or really any MS based product has over its competitors. Slack is so good. Google docs are so good. Gmail is so good. I guess at an older company where everyone is on office365 this makes sense but for any modern small medium or large company these products just seem like they've lost any sort of competitive edge. I could be totally wrong but that's the way I see it right now.

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10yr ago

UbiMeet

@maxwell_nelson its more about the ecosystem than specific product features. According to Gardner research from earlier this year, Office 365 still has more market penetration than GSuite. (8.5% of publicly traded companies use Office365, compared to 4.7% for GSuite) http://www.computerweekly.com/ne... Slack may be a great point solution, but bundles and single-vendor solutions can be pretty compelling to an IT buyer

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10yr ago

Wonder

Sucks if you're already logged in for another MS product. No way to view it.

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10yr ago

@ryanamurphy I ran into the same issue

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10yr ago

@ryanamurphy Looks like something to learn when launching a product. I cannot log in with my account, "You are not authorized to view this resource".

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10yr ago

Wonder

@leonelmore I'm sure it works on their machine though.

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10yr ago

Nice! Wait what? "You are not authorized to view this resource." Oh yeah I forgot... Microsoft 😏

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10yr ago

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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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