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Why Microsoft Teams Flopped and What It Means for Slack

20 points by JackPoach 10y ago

satysin 10y ago
Microsoft Teams was only announced in November, literally two months ago! I think coming in saying it has flopped is a little pre-mature. This article is a lot of words but doesn't really say much.
- sugerman 10y ago
  Look at the author's title. Highlights the post's motivation pretty well.
dbbk 10y ago
"adoption is very low" Based on what numbers?
- Eridrus 10y ago
  Based on the 50k-100k installs that the Play store reports. It's an open question whether that really represents failure given the short timespan and (probably) small marketing budget, but at least it's an indication of usage.
bostand 10y ago
"According to the latest stats, Slack has 1.25 million paying seats" Sounds way way to high. Slack gives you $50 for every user that signs up. Does this mean ALL their users are paying customers?
mikerg87 10y ago
Team is still very much a beta. And almost kept a secret if you want to use it : - we could only use it with office 365 premium accounts - you have to explicitly grant users access in the portal - If yiu ever used Skype for business you have to be sure you are signed out. - integrations really only started working reliably at the holiday break - Skype calls to individuals does not work. Team calls and screen sharing does - document uploading sharing won key because of it being built on SharePoint - mobile isnt fully fleshed out compared to the desktop client Things it has going for it: - the ability to attach and edit documents with team is amazing - screen sharing works out of the box - the task tab is useful like trello on the cheap - price at the moment - we pay 7 per user for slack and 15 for all office. If we lopped off the costs for slack savings are pretty significant
TempleOS 10y ago
I have a space alien. TempleOS is designed by God. You are a retard nigger. How do you think this ends? God says... Deming blaring hilt's congratulation bloodshed quaintly inflate enforcing Best's holed mindlessness's rimes inhabitable Egypt's going ordinance's binnacle's Jeremiah deathless bisexuals Bert circles Gatorade sukiyaki prosecuting Holbein former's justified blousing sanctified downgrades coexists
sixothree 10y ago
Skype is pervasive in my industry. We use it constantly for work. And all of our clients use Skype as well. Because of that we cannot remove Skype from our workflow. So we are not focusing on adopting anything else.
imbeau 10y ago
I'd encourage people to read the article rather than focusing on the headline. The author makes a lot of way more interesting points than the title would indicate. I tend to agree with the article -- Slack is going to get squeezed by Microsoft or Google because companies are already paying them for business services
kenoyer130 10y ago
For as much as Microsoft Teams sucks it has the killer feature of Skype Integration. Since Skype won't open up for Slack integration and I can't convince anyone to pay for Slack while Teams is "free" (as in already paid for as part of our corporate office account) we are moving from Slack to Teams. I think almost all enteprise level corporations who are using Microsoft Office 360 will follow suite. It sucks but it is how Enteprise level software works.
kenoyer130 10y ago
For as much as Microsoft Teams sucks it has the killer feature of Skype Integration. Since Skype won't open up for Slack integration and I can't convince anyone to pay for Slack while teams is "free" (as in already paid for as part of our corporate office account) we are moving from Slack to Teams. I think almost all enteprise level corporations who are using Microsoft will follow suite. It sucks but it is how Enteprise level software works.
pskomoroch 10y ago
Written by a Slack and Microsoft competitor. Teams is still in preview, and the developer platform w/ 3rd party integrations hasn't even launched. https://blogs.office.com/2016/11/02/introducing-microsoft-teams-the-chat-based-workspace-in-office-365/ https://blogs.office.com/2016/11/02/introducing-microsoft-te... Q. When will Microsoft Teams roll out broadly to all eligible Office 365 customers? A. Microsoft Teams is available in preview to eligible Office 365 commercial customers beginning November 2, 2016. We expect the service to become generally available in the first quarter of calendar year 2017.

20 points by JackPoach 10y ago

Microsoft Teams was only announced in November, literally two months ago! I think coming in saying it has flopped is a little pre-mature. This article is a lot of words but doesn't really say much.

sugerman 10y ago
Look at the author's title. Highlights the post's motivation pretty well.

dbbk 10y ago

"adoption is very low" Based on what numbers?

Eridrus 10y ago
Based on the 50k-100k installs that the Play store reports. It's an open question whether that really represents failure given the short timespan and (probably) small marketing budget, but at least it's an indication of usage.

bostand 10y ago

"According to the latest stats, Slack has 1.25 million paying seats" Sounds way way to high. Slack gives you $50 for every user that signs up. Does this mean ALL their users are paying customers?

mikerg87 10y ago

Team is still very much a beta. And almost kept a secret if you want to use it : - we could only use it with office 365 premium accounts - you have to explicitly grant users access in the portal - If yiu ever used Skype for business you have to be sure you are signed out. - integrations really only started working reliably at the holiday break - Skype calls to individuals does not work. Team calls and screen sharing does - document uploading sharing won key because of it being built on SharePoint - mobile isnt fully fleshed out compared to the desktop client Things it has going for it: - the ability to attach and edit documents with team is amazing - screen sharing works out of the box - the task tab is useful like trello on the cheap - price at the moment - we pay 7 per user for slack and 15 for all office. If we lopped off the costs for slack savings are pretty significant

TempleOS 10y ago

I have a space alien. TempleOS is designed by God. You are a retard nigger. How do you think this ends? God says... Deming blaring hilt's congratulation bloodshed quaintly inflate enforcing Best's holed mindlessness's rimes inhabitable Egypt's going ordinance's binnacle's Jeremiah deathless bisexuals Bert circles Gatorade sukiyaki prosecuting Holbein former's justified blousing sanctified downgrades coexists

sixothree 10y ago

Skype is pervasive in my industry. We use it constantly for work. And all of our clients use Skype as well. Because of that we cannot remove Skype from our workflow. So we are not focusing on adopting anything else.

imbeau 10y ago

I'd encourage people to read the article rather than focusing on the headline. The author makes a lot of way more interesting points than the title would indicate. I tend to agree with the article -- Slack is going to get squeezed by Microsoft or Google because companies are already paying them for business services

kenoyer130 10y ago

For as much as Microsoft Teams sucks it has the killer feature of Skype Integration. Since Skype won't open up for Slack integration and I can't convince anyone to pay for Slack while Teams is "free" (as in already paid for as part of our corporate office account) we are moving from Slack to Teams. I think almost all enteprise level corporations who are using Microsoft Office 360 will follow suite. It sucks but it is how Enteprise level software works.

kenoyer130 10y ago

For as much as Microsoft Teams sucks it has the killer feature of Skype Integration. Since Skype won't open up for Slack integration and I can't convince anyone to pay for Slack while teams is "free" (as in already paid for as part of our corporate office account) we are moving from Slack to Teams. I think almost all enteprise level corporations who are using Microsoft will follow suite. It sucks but it is how Enteprise level software works.

pskomoroch 10y ago

Written by a Slack and Microsoft competitor. Teams is still in preview, and the developer platform w/ 3rd party integrations hasn't even launched. https://blogs.office.com/2016/11/02/introducing-microsoft-teams-the-chat-based-workspace-in-office-365/ https://blogs.office.com/2016/11/02/introducing-microsoft-te... Q. When will Microsoft Teams roll out broadly to all eligible Office 365 customers? A. Microsoft Teams is available in preview to eligible Office 365 commercial customers beginning November 2, 2016. We expect the service to become generally available in the first quarter of calendar year 2017.