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Teams is the result of Microsoft taking a look at Slack and saying, how can we make this feel more like Excel?
by bmy78 4y ago
Teams is the result of Microsoft taking a look at Slack and saying, how can we make this feel more like Excel?
- roboben 4y agoInternal code name was Slack360
- graphe 4y agoBecause when you saw it you walked 360 degrees away
- albrewer 4y agoAs a teenager circa 2007, I would troll in World of Warcraft's Trade chat with a variant of this joke.
- lostmsu 4y ago360 is a full circle, e.g. you'd turn right back toward it.
- peteradio 4y ago360 degrees away? Why don't you try this and see how far you get. Look at something now turn a full circle (360 degrees) and start walking, become amazed that whatever you were looking at is now closer.
- amarshall 4y ago365? Also can’t tell if you’re serious or joking.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoThe joke is that MS brands its online services as "365", but they have enough outages for people to say things along the lines of "more like Microsoft 360, amiright?"
- bialpio 4y agoHuh, when I saw it first I read it more as: "360 is a full turn, so Slack360 just means same thing as Slack"
- roboben 4y agoThis is unintentionally funny
- wincy 4y agoWe use this joke at work all the time, any time a Microsoft service is down we call it “Microsoft 359”. It’s the work equivalent of a dad joke.
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- roboben 4y agoLol Im meant to joke about the Microsoft product naming and got it wrong which somehow makes it more funny (read the other comments why)
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- yohannparis 4y agoI don't see where is that a problem? People who will be using Teams are people using Office 365 daily. Having a cohesive ecosystem makes complete sense. From a UX too.
- widowlark 4y agoThe problem is that its very top heavy and is not well done, has lots of UI bugs and really is a pain to work with
- vikram2784 4y agoTotally agree. MS Teams is super agonizing to work with.
- axlee 4y agoFor meetings, calls, screensharing, and scheduling it's superior to Slack in every single way. Written experience is worse though. If only Slack spent a month writing a "Schedule a meeting with those people, and add the meeting with a link to everyone's calendar" feature, they would be on par.
- jrochkind1 4y agoOne reason Slack maybe doens't, is nobody actually chooses Teams over Slack because of feature set. They choose Teams over Slack because it's "good enough" and included with Office360 which they already have. Meeting Teams feature set may not actually get Slack any more customers at all.
- axlee 4y agoWe do use Teams and Slack, Teams for scheduled meetings and Slack for everything else, just because Slack's scheduling is non-existent while something great comes out of the box from Teams (and yes, also because we get it "for free" through O365, and wouldn't be paying for Zoom). We wouldn't have to deal with Teams if Slack upped their game.
- LarryMullins 4y agoI wish I could believe that Microsoft appreciates Excel that much. Excel is one of the most empowering applications ever written and the single greatest thing Microsoft has ever been involved with.
- ijustlovemath 4y agoWhat most techies don't get about Excel is that people wouldn't build their businesses around it if it weren't a really powerful abstraction. Sure, a dev could set up a CRUD app, but then you need a dev, which is far outside the budget of most SMBs. Rather than Excel being the root of all evil, we should view it as the empowerment tool that it really is!
- twoodfin 4y agoWhen SPJ of Haskell fame was working for Microsoft, he put together a fantastic presentation on this theme: https://www.lambdadays.org/static/upload/media/161673641592992lambdadaysfeb21corrected.pdf https://www.lambdadays.org/static/upload/media/1616736415929...
- TheRealDunkirk 4y agoCredit where due, spreadsheet applications were already established AND bundled into suites by the time Microsoft got around to leveraging their market position to make Office the de facto standard. But, yeah, I owe most of my career to making real web apps out of badly designed, hard to use, vile to share, yet somehow better than nothing Excel workbooks. Even with all the modern trappings, and besides specific applications like Photoshop or CATIA, you could probably still run a company on just email and Excel, because people will make Excel do whatever they need, no matter how lumbering the monster becomes.
- twoodfin 4y agoThat undersells the innovation of Excel, which started out as a Macintosh exclusive before being ported to Windows. It was the first major spreadsheet to be GUI-based from the ground up. It didn’t need Office bundling (which came much later) to dominate, it was by far the superior spreadsheet in the Windows 3.0/3.1 era.
- AtNightWeCode 4y agoWell, Excel does not come with a complete broken auth. MS posts stats of how horrible the Internet sec is and it is just that you mostly can't even use the service without going into auth hell.