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The key difference is that an active user on Microsoft Teams is someone with an outlook mailbox, and an active user on Slack is someone who uses Slack
by blueboo 7y ago
The key difference is that an active user on Microsoft Teams is someone with an outlook mailbox, and an active user on Slack is someone who uses Slack
- lewisj489 7y agoThat's not how it works.
- thaniri 7y agoThat's not how it works to a reasonable person, but marketers can count however best suits them.
- davidandgoliath 7y agoAs long as they don't mind fighting with the SEC, sure.
- finales 7y agoAs a former MSFT employee (on Azure), Teams daily active users are counted even when someone on Outlook hosts a meeting, which is automatically converted into a Teams meeting link. Therefore, unless an enterprise is still sticking with Skype, Teams users will automatically get trickled in from Outlook.
- elygre 7y agoThat would only be if they hosted an online meeting (an audio or video conference), not for any outlook meeting (i.e. a meeting booked with outlook doing scheduling, but meeting happening in a good old meeting room). And that is then comparable to slack video conferencing, so probably a fair comparison.
- SahAssar 7y agoAre you claiming that microsoft counts "outlook daily active users" as "teams daily active users"? Cause the article specifies "daily active users", not "signed up" or anything like that.
- futhey 7y agoThey’re rebranding Skype for business as teams meetings, and pretty soon anyone who uses Office 365 for video calls for meetings will end up being counted as a teams user (even if they don’t sign in to teams or ever look at chat). This isn’t too far off, although it’s new enough I doubt it has a massive impact on the 13m number.