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I read analysts report about slack from time to time. It is amusing. Many investor looking at it from a market perspective claim that MS will crush slack and po

by baxtr 7y ago

I read analysts report about slack from time to time. It is amusing. Many investor looking at it from a market perspective claim that MS will crush slack and potentially Zoom, because both are commodities included in your monthly 365 subscription. So reasonable companies will give up on the convenient slack and Zoom combo over time. I just don’t buy that simple logic because quality is simply ignored here. Your comment is in line with my thinking.

coribuci 7y ago
Companies do not buy quality.They buy "integration". If your slack does not work with Office 365 you're doomed.
- techntoke 7y ago
  Office 365 is crap too. Outlook web app is significantly slower than Gmail. Outlook doesn't even support labels natively, and their filters are miserable. Outlook web app still is far from feature parity with their desktop app and their desktop app doesn't work on Linux. Outlook calendar automatically deletes the entire series when you try removing past events. I had a manager that left recently and therefore they cancelled a series. Rather than keep the previous events so that I could go back and see what I was doing on a particular day, it just removed the entire past series from everyone's calendar like they never attended.
- baxtr 7y ago
  My experience is different. Companies do interesting things nowadays to keep their “tech talent”. Maybe with Corona things have changed
mns 7y ago
Companies ignore quality all the time to save costs. We're on the Office 365 bandwagon. We used Skype before company wide and Slack in IT. They made a group of seeing which tool is better. Slack ended up better, but Teams is free in our Office subscription, so now we are all on Teams (while in our team we still use Slack internally under the radar, especially because we have loads of useful plugins for builds, git, automation). Teams has some of those plugins, but it seems like some sort of cheap clone made with Material UI or Bootstrap that they just gobbled up in a few months to take on Slack. I ranted before about the notifications on Mac, about the support on Linux for some people, for us it doesn't even work with our conferencing equipment from Logitech (everything else works on a Mac with it, except Teams), but nobody cares, we have a good enough "free" solution.

by baxtr 7y ago

coribuci 7y ago

Companies do not buy quality.They buy "integration". If your slack does not work with Office 365 you're doomed.

techntoke 7y ago
Office 365 is crap too. Outlook web app is significantly slower than Gmail. Outlook doesn't even support labels natively, and their filters are miserable. Outlook web app still is far from feature parity with their desktop app and their desktop app doesn't work on Linux. Outlook calendar automatically deletes the entire series when you try removing past events. I had a manager that left recently and therefore they cancelled a series. Rather than keep the previous events so that I could go back and see what I was doing on a particular day, it just removed the entire past series from everyone's calendar like they never attended.
baxtr 7y ago
My experience is different. Companies do interesting things nowadays to keep their “tech talent”. Maybe with Corona things have changed

mns 7y ago

Companies ignore quality all the time to save costs. We're on the Office 365 bandwagon. We used Skype before company wide and Slack in IT. They made a group of seeing which tool is better. Slack ended up better, but Teams is free in our Office subscription, so now we are all on Teams (while in our team we still use Slack internally under the radar, especially because we have loads of useful plugins for builds, git, automation). Teams has some of those plugins, but it seems like some sort of cheap clone made with Material UI or Bootstrap that they just gobbled up in a few months to take on Slack. I ranted before about the notifications on Mac, about the support on Linux for some people, for us it doesn't even work with our conferencing equipment from Logitech (everything else works on a Mac with it, except Teams), but nobody cares, we have a good enough "free" solution.