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Slack is now easier to use with Microsoft’s Office 365 apps

grenoire 8y ago
I hate these kinds of comments, but this time it's really bothering me. Actually interested in the headline, I stopped my adblocker; my fucking God, is this what normal people face regularly nowadays? It's insane...
- tadzik_ 8y ago
  Not sure what's on that site; I hopped right into firefox's reader mode on the first popup that... popped up, and it all seems pretty good now :) It's hard for me to imagine browsing the web without it anymore, and I assume for regular people it's just an annoying experience of blindly agreeing and accepting everything without reading :/
- css 8y ago
  There is a giant button on the popup that says "Continue with Adblocker"
  - rinchik 8y ago
    Giant button? Id say it's more of a tiny, humble pale-white link on the bottom. yuck.
    - css 8y ago
      It's right in the center in bold text for me
- mikestew 8y ago
  HN can sure be a whiny bunch at times, let's disable the ad blocker and go see how "bad" it...OMG, you weren't kidding. I seriously say to readers not using an ad blocker: good luck finding the content you were looking for. OTOH, I think I found a new Pi Hole test bed to replace cafemom.com.
intern4tional 8y ago
This story is just a summary of: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/9/18301736/slack-microsoft-office-365-apps-integration-outlook-calendar-onedrive-features https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/9/18301736/slack-microsoft-o... It also contains less information as it makes it seem like Slack and O365 are collaborating when they are not. tl;dr: "Microsoft has shown in the past that it’s willing to partner with rivals like Dropbox, but Slack’s Office 365 integration was created using public APIs and with no special help from Microsoft. This Slack integration comes just months after Microsoft launched its free version of Teams to rival Slack, just weeks after the company unveiled creative new conference call features for its Slack competitor." (from the Verge article)
fredsted 8y ago
Maybe change the link to the original source: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/9/18301736/slack-microsoft-office-365-apps-integration-outlook-calendar-onedrive-features https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/9/18301736/slack-microsoft-o... -- which also doesn't have a bunch of popups and autoplaying video.
- sctb 8y ago
  Thanks! We've updated the link from https://www.techradar.com/news/slack-joins-forces-with-microsoft-office-365 https://www.techradar.com/news/slack-joins-forces-with-micro....
petetnt 8y ago
G Suite add-ons were also released at the same time (or at least the update notification stated so) and at least the calendar and email add-ons have been awesome so far.
probdist 8y ago
This is a good move from Slack. Microsoft teams is an extremely high quality product already. Slack has to be wary of this competitive force nipping at their heels. I've seen teams make good penetration into large companies by starting as the alternative to sharepoint for new projects/working groups. Team's live editing functionality of excel files is really really valuable for team collaboration. Slack closing the gap on O365 integration is important for enterprise sales.
- zinkem 8y ago
  > Microsoft teams is an extremely high quality product already. This has not been my experience with MS Teams. If I respond to a message on my phone, and then return to my laptop, Teams has disconnected and I have to restart the app on my laptop in order to get updated messages. Scrolling back even 5 minutes in Teams' message history incurs multi-second latency sometimes, so reviewing the context of a conversation you're in is very painful. Threading is handled very poorly in teams and makes teams feel much more like a decades old forum than a chat application. I do agree this is a good move for Slack, but only because organizations are adopting teams due to its bundling with Office 365, something most companies are already using. Slack has no other way to survive because the people in the org making these decisions aren't concerned with the quality of the tools they are choosing, just the idea they are getting something for free.
  - modzu 8y ago
    yep, teams has a lot of potential, but there's a lot of rough edges. for example until recently copy-and-paste didn't work. i was just thinking of moving from teams to slack. hopefully this is good news
    - dudleyf 8y ago
      We've moved from Teams, to Slack, and back to Teams over the last 2 years. Teams has come a long way since 2017, but the basic chat functionality is still pretty far behind Slack. Next time, I'll stick with Slack.
- 8y ago
iwalton3 8y ago
The headline for this article almost makes it sound like Slack was acquired by Microsoft, which is not the case.
loco5niner 8y ago
Wow, that site is awful. Mods, please change the link

I hate these kinds of comments, but this time it's really bothering me. Actually interested in the headline, I stopped my adblocker; my fucking God, is this what normal people face regularly nowadays? It's insane...

tadzik_ 8y ago
Not sure what's on that site; I hopped right into firefox's reader mode on the first popup that... popped up, and it all seems pretty good now :) It's hard for me to imagine browsing the web without it anymore, and I assume for regular people it's just an annoying experience of blindly agreeing and accepting everything without reading :/
css 8y ago
There is a giant button on the popup that says "Continue with Adblocker"
- rinchik 8y ago
  Giant button? Id say it's more of a tiny, humble pale-white link on the bottom. yuck.
  - css 8y ago
    It's right in the center in bold text for me
mikestew 8y ago
HN can sure be a whiny bunch at times, let's disable the ad blocker and go see how "bad" it...OMG, you weren't kidding. I seriously say to readers not using an ad blocker: good luck finding the content you were looking for. OTOH, I think I found a new Pi Hole test bed to replace cafemom.com.

intern4tional 8y ago

This story is just a summary of: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/9/18301736/slack-microsoft-office-365-apps-integration-outlook-calendar-onedrive-features https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/9/18301736/slack-microsoft-o... It also contains less information as it makes it seem like Slack and O365 are collaborating when they are not. tl;dr: "Microsoft has shown in the past that it’s willing to partner with rivals like Dropbox, but Slack’s Office 365 integration was created using public APIs and with no special help from Microsoft. This Slack integration comes just months after Microsoft launched its free version of Teams to rival Slack, just weeks after the company unveiled creative new conference call features for its Slack competitor." (from the Verge article)

fredsted 8y ago

Maybe change the link to the original source: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/9/18301736/slack-microsoft-office-365-apps-integration-outlook-calendar-onedrive-features https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/9/18301736/slack-microsoft-o... -- which also doesn't have a bunch of popups and autoplaying video.

sctb 8y ago
Thanks! We've updated the link from https://www.techradar.com/news/slack-joins-forces-with-microsoft-office-365 https://www.techradar.com/news/slack-joins-forces-with-micro....

petetnt 8y ago

G Suite add-ons were also released at the same time (or at least the update notification stated so) and at least the calendar and email add-ons have been awesome so far.

probdist 8y ago

This is a good move from Slack. Microsoft teams is an extremely high quality product already. Slack has to be wary of this competitive force nipping at their heels. I've seen teams make good penetration into large companies by starting as the alternative to sharepoint for new projects/working groups. Team's live editing functionality of excel files is really really valuable for team collaboration. Slack closing the gap on O365 integration is important for enterprise sales.

zinkem 8y ago
> Microsoft teams is an extremely high quality product already. This has not been my experience with MS Teams. If I respond to a message on my phone, and then return to my laptop, Teams has disconnected and I have to restart the app on my laptop in order to get updated messages. Scrolling back even 5 minutes in Teams' message history incurs multi-second latency sometimes, so reviewing the context of a conversation you're in is very painful. Threading is handled very poorly in teams and makes teams feel much more like a decades old forum than a chat application. I do agree this is a good move for Slack, but only because organizations are adopting teams due to its bundling with Office 365, something most companies are already using. Slack has no other way to survive because the people in the org making these decisions aren't concerned with the quality of the tools they are choosing, just the idea they are getting something for free.
- modzu 8y ago
  yep, teams has a lot of potential, but there's a lot of rough edges. for example until recently copy-and-paste didn't work. i was just thinking of moving from teams to slack. hopefully this is good news
  - dudleyf 8y ago
    We've moved from Teams, to Slack, and back to Teams over the last 2 years. Teams has come a long way since 2017, but the basic chat functionality is still pretty far behind Slack. Next time, I'll stick with Slack.
8y ago

iwalton3 8y ago

The headline for this article almost makes it sound like Slack was acquired by Microsoft, which is not the case.

loco5niner 8y ago

Wow, that site is awful. Mods, please change the link