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by mbreese 693 days ago
People use Teams and OneDrive because it’s “Free” when you use Office. IMO, that’s a bit of an anti-trust problem. Both have good competitors (arguably better competitors) that are getting squeezed because of the monopoly pricing with Office.

But with SQL Server, on the other hand, I think you are right. It is a good piece of software. But it also has high quality competition from multiple vendors. Some of it enterprise (Oracle, DB2), some of it FOSS (Postgres, MySQL). Because of this, it has to be better quality to survive… they couldn’t bundle it to get market share, it actually had to compete.
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josephd79 693 days ago
Word, no one uses teams because its great. The only reason it's used is because it's bundled with $M365.
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throwaway3306a 693 days ago
People use Teams because it's well integrated into Office, 365, Entra and other MS products, they would (and recently do) pay for it. It has functionalities that no other alternative has, e.g. it can act as a full call centre solution through a SIP gateway.
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digging 693 days ago
"Well integrated" is honestly a stretch, but it is fair to say it's integrated with no extra setup.
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throwaway3306a 692 days ago
How to manage Slack access control via Azure AD groups? Even the most basic integrations are missing in other options...
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