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Microsoft can just copy everything that Slack does right, give it away for a fraction or for free and there's nothing that they can do about it.
by _pmf_ 10y ago
Microsoft can just copy everything that Slack does right, give it away for a fraction or for free and there's nothing that they can do about it.
- test001only 10y agoIf they give it away for free (as part of office365), is that not effectively anticompetitive behaviour?
- hrayr 10y agoWell, now that slack has so "genuinely" welcomed microsoft as a competitor, I don't think they can turn around and argue the opposite for the same offering.
- twblalock 10y agoSlack is going to look dumb if it ever sues Microsoft. "But, your honor, Slack told the world they welcome competition from us in this infamous letter from November 2016!"
- kirubakaran 10y agoI get your point, but, if an anti-trust suit ever happened, it would be DoJ that sues MS, not Slack.
- Delmania 10y agoYou're not required to use Teams on Office365. The anti-competitive behavior would be if you couldn't turn it off, and it had to be on due to core functionality with Office. Most people just use o365 for exchange and office apps.
- apetresc 10y agoMicrosoft has nothing close to a monopoly in this space, so no.
- marcosdumay 10y agoIn office applications? That is the one they would be abusing.
- beisner 10y agoIt's not anticompetitive if the actual product is easy/cheap to implement (especially on Microsoft's existing infrastructure). If they can do something much cheaper than Slack can, and they can turn a profit at a much lower price point. The Slack product has a lot of delivered value for teams, but that doesn't mean that they have a right to high margins or high costs.
- zzguy 10y agoThey better, because if they try to adapt skype for business (a.k.a lync), they'll fail miserably. That app was terrible
- mikestew 10y agoLync, was the that the app whose Mac client I've never seen run without crashing shortly after startup, on multiple machines across multiple companies? That's right, I've never successfully used the Mac Lync client to send a message, despite having it installed on probably three or four machines over time. That's not to say that Slack doesn't have a lot to worry about. But competition from Lync, or whatever the hell they call it this week, is not one of those things.
- dimino 10y agoI use their Mac client just fine...
- mikestew 10y agoAs one who was previously employed by Microsoft, I have to believe that they would not let something that broken out the door, and that I've just had a run of bad luck of broken configurations or server-side operations folk that didn't know what they were doing. But the fact remains that I've never sent a message using the Lync Mac client, and not for lack of trying.
- kzisme 10y agoIt's even more miserable that it's the de-facto standard where I'm at currently.
- pidg 10y agoI tried IM and voice calls in Teams today and it's almost perfect. I honestly don't see much of a future for Skype for Business now.