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> Microsoft won the work from home game by delivering more features even though the quality admittedly suffered. Microsoft won the work from home game by bundl
by Analemma_ 4y ago
> Microsoft won the work from home game by delivering more features even though the quality admittedly suffered.
Microsoft won the work from home game by bundling Teams with an O365 subscription that companies were paying for anyway, making it cost-effective for the bean counters to use a "free" crappy tool instead of a paid better one.
Whether this is anticompetitive monopolist behavior in a legal sense is a question for the courts, but it's certainly anticompetitive in spirit, and undoubtedly true that Teams is not winning on merit.
- scruple 4y agoThis is exactly why my former (pandemic) employer moved from Zoom to Teams. When I was leaving, they were pushing Teams over Slack for text. That business has ~5,000 global employees. The move was simply a cost savings measure. Loss of productivity be damned.