> by most accounts Slack is a better product Perhaps but it doesn't seem customers value it very much. > I highly doubt it Microsoft would have made Teams a s

> by most accounts Slack is a better product Perhaps but it doesn't seem customers value it very much. > I highly doubt it Microsoft would have made Teams a stand alone product each company had to buy per user that it would have gotten anywhere near the adoption it did. To me the fact that people would pay for a chat app was an oddity in the first place. Skype (the consumer version) was mostly free.