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That’s not really their strategy anymore, it’s not “bundle a bunch of mediocre stuff” but more “Bundle it with Exchange and Outlook”, which is an excellent prod
by easton 5y ago
That’s not really their strategy anymore, it’s not “bundle a bunch of mediocre stuff” but more “Bundle it with Exchange and Outlook”, which is an excellent product. People will buy Exchange, and then the Teams button just magically pops up and they don’t see a good enough reason to go buy Slack unless their employees complain too much.
- kwertyoowiyop 5y ago“Bundling” in some form was almost always their power move.
- _ea1k 5y agoGoogle does basically the same thing. Lots of other products become the default because they became "free" once the company chose gmail. Yeah, other products are better, but expensive compared to "$0".
- tambourine_man 5y ago>“Exchange and Outlook”, which is an excellent product I've never seen anyone compliment those products voluntarily. Care to elaborate why do you find them excellent?
- neilalexander 5y agoHave you ever tried to use shared inboxes or calendars on any other competing system? There's an awful lot that Outlook and Exchange get right.
- pjmlp 5y agoDon't get me started on Lotus Notes for email.
- easton 5y agoCalendaring in Outlook is worlds better than anything else I've used, there's a ton of niceties (pick a time, type a name and it automatically tells you that person is unavailable. same with rooms.). Exchange's sync is very good, which is not something I can say for traditional IMAP. I have my problems with them (like that Outlook is by far the most unstable part of Office, and can't keep the local cache clean for more than a year), but the features that work are way better than anything else on the market. I use Gmail for personal mail (because it comes with my unlimited Google Drive), and I can't do half of the rules and things I can do it Outlook.