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Back then: https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/04/source-microsoft-mulled-an-8-billion-bid-for-slack-will-focus-on-skype-instead/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/04/s

Back then: https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/04/source-microsoft-mulled-an-8-billion-bid-for-slack-will-focus-on-skype-instead/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/04/source-microsoft-mulled-an... Microsoft must be cursing their decision right now..

intern4tional 6y ago
Over what? Teams is currently eating Slacks lunch.
- heavyarms 6y ago
  I'm so tired of hearing this argument. The amount of revenue generated by customers who use only Microsoft Teams without an Office365 subscription is exactly $0 [1]. MS gives you exactly 2 options to get teams: 1. Free 2. Included as part of Office365. Teams is currently eatings Slacks lunch, but the lunch was paid for by a corporate IT guy who switched to Office365 so he could lay off some IT admins and save some money compared to managing an on-premise Exchange server. [1](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/compare-microsoft-teams-options https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-team...)
  - goatherders 6y ago
    I don't understand. What argument are you tired of hearing? Teams has more users than Slack. Doesn't matter how/why they got them.
    - hacker_newz 6y ago
      Captive users don't really count.
      - sib 6y ago
        But lots of Slack users are captive as well (e.g., when CIO licenses Slack for <$FORTUNE_500_CO> )
        vehementi 6y ago
        Slack is expensive, nobody randomly buys it for every employee
        justapassenger 6y ago
        They totally do, especially at big companies. You need to show that you made a difference, and rolled out new communication platform for the whole company, not just for 5%.
      - noelsusman 6y ago
        Why not?
      - goatherders 6y ago
        Really? What's the logic behind that?
  - trevorishere 6y ago
    We don't have _less_ staff due to migrating from Exchange Server to EXO -- quite the opposite (and the remainder of the M365 stack has significantly grown IT, as well).
- deleted 6y ago
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laurent92 6y ago
Or happy that Salesforce is spending $26bn and not Microsoft.
jasonblais 6y ago
Given that - Microsoft considered an $8B acquisition early 2016 - Salesforce does a $28B acquisition late 2020 That's only about 3x growth in almost 5 years. Don't get me wrong, this is a massive acquisition, but I still say "only" given the hypergrowth experienced by many adjacent tech companies. So I think Microsoft may be quite happy they decided not to acquire Slack at such a high tag price nearly 5 years ago.

intern4tional 6y ago

Over what? Teams is currently eating Slacks lunch.

heavyarms 6y ago
I'm so tired of hearing this argument. The amount of revenue generated by customers who use only Microsoft Teams without an Office365 subscription is exactly $0 [1]. MS gives you exactly 2 options to get teams: 1. Free 2. Included as part of Office365. Teams is currently eatings Slacks lunch, but the lunch was paid for by a corporate IT guy who switched to Office365 so he could lay off some IT admins and save some money compared to managing an on-premise Exchange server. [1](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/compare-microsoft-teams-options https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-team...)
- goatherders 6y ago
  I don't understand. What argument are you tired of hearing? Teams has more users than Slack. Doesn't matter how/why they got them.
  - hacker_newz 6y ago
    Captive users don't really count.
    - sib 6y ago
      But lots of Slack users are captive as well (e.g., when CIO licenses Slack for <$FORTUNE_500_CO> )
      - vehementi 6y ago
        Slack is expensive, nobody randomly buys it for every employee
        justapassenger 6y ago
        They totally do, especially at big companies. You need to show that you made a difference, and rolled out new communication platform for the whole company, not just for 5%.
    - noelsusman 6y ago
      Why not?
    - goatherders 6y ago
      Really? What's the logic behind that?
- trevorishere 6y ago
  We don't have _less_ staff due to migrating from Exchange Server to EXO -- quite the opposite (and the remainder of the M365 stack has significantly grown IT, as well).
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laurent92 6y ago

Or happy that Salesforce is spending $26bn and not Microsoft.

jasonblais 6y ago

Given that - Microsoft considered an $8B acquisition early 2016 - Salesforce does a $28B acquisition late 2020 That's only about 3x growth in almost 5 years. Don't get me wrong, this is a massive acquisition, but I still say "only" given the hypergrowth experienced by many adjacent tech companies. So I think Microsoft may be quite happy they decided not to acquire Slack at such a high tag price nearly 5 years ago.