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> Microsoft won the work from home game by delivering more features Citation needed. First off, I don't know if Microsoft did win the work-from-home game. Do
by MrDOS 4y ago
> Microsoft won the work from home game by delivering more features
Citation needed.
First off, I don't know if Microsoft did win the work-from-home game. Do you have comparative sales numbers to support that assertion?
Anyway, I'd believe that they won the work-from-home game by...
- bundling Teams in with O365 subscriptions so frugal companies don't need to pay for a separate IM platform subscription, or by
- winning over IT administrators with out-of-the-box Active Directory integration.
Those aren't “more” features, really; they're just the usual, staple bullet points that you expect of every Microsoft productivity application. The feature Teams does need is performance. I don't know a single person who has used any Teams alternative and who still prefers to use Teams, and the chief complaint I hear is about Teams' poor performance. Yes, of course, there will always be those features that people don't know they want until they have it, but when everyone and their dog complains about every possible dimension of poor performance – poor interface responsiveness, high CPU load (“my fan is on!”), poor network utilization (“sorry, my video is worse on Teams”) – you should probably prioritize that.
- soundnote 4y agoLooks like they did: https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan/status/1640866391485194241 https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan/status/1640866391485194241
- wink 4y agoThey might have actually have more features to be ticked off for a general sense of office employees, but it's mostly software developers with a remote first attitude of active collaboration that have been asking about stuff like "working" code snippets not just "can paste code for it to be mangled" and switching rooms (god have mercy on you if you are part of several teams (in Teams) and need to use all those channel frequently) etc.pp whereas they could not care less about some office integration (especially if on Linux) - so I would not dispute the "more features", just that they might be broken or useless :P