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by tyingq 1798 days ago
That's the sort of brilliance of Microsoft's approach...Teams doesn't have to be better, it just has to be good enough, and only good enough in the eyes of the procurement teams.

Leadership folks buy O365 because it's the cheapest way to get Office, Sharepoint, Exchange and so on. Enterprise Teams comes with it whether you want it or not, "no extra charge".

Then, when someone wants Slack, the discussion becomes "We already have Teams. I see Slack does x and y a little better, but is that worth X dollars?".
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AdamJacobMuller 1798 days ago
While I agree slack is better, Teams is improving and slack seems to be devolving into a worse platform with lots of anti-features. The simplistic and focused approach that made me love slack have gone away.

The whole integration aspect of teams with office365 is also a huge draw.

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tyingq 1798 days ago
>The whole integration aspect of teams with office365 is also a huge draw.

Ah, yeah, should have mentioned that. Attachments in messages go into OneDrive, MS Forms is used to post a Poll/Quiz, Click on people's names, and you can see org hierarchy from AD, Meetings from Outlook/Exchange are tied to Teams, and so on.

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