I don't understand how chat service can be so intertwined with printer-first applications (Word, Excel).
Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365
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Re: Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365
#12When Office 365 came out, I mostly compared the price to Google Apps and didn't really think Office 365 brought that much value. Now, you can have a Google Apps, Slack, Trello, and Evernote alternative for your business under one subscription. Even if you choose the plan for installed Office applications on your computer, the price is still much more attractive than having to get a subscription for every one of the c…
What is the Trello alternative?
Re: Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365
#13When Office 365 came out, I mostly compared the price to Google Apps and didn't really think Office 365 brought that much value. Now, you can have a Google Apps, Slack, Trello, and Evernote alternative for your business under one subscription. Even if you choose the plan for installed Office applications on your computer, the price is still much more attractive than having to get a subscription for every one of the c…
What is the Trello alternative?
Re: Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365
#14When Office 365 came out, I mostly compared the price to Google Apps and didn't really think Office 365 brought that much value. Now, you can have a Google Apps, Slack, Trello, and Evernote alternative for your business under one subscription. Even if you choose the plan for installed Office applications on your computer, the price is still much more attractive than having to get a subscription for every one of the c…
What is the Trello alternative?
Microsoft Planner I guess
Re: Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365
#15It doesn't scroll new messages, but instead shows a button "New Messages" that you must click or mouse wheel scroll.
We tried using Teams last night for release coordination. This misfeature made it practically unusable. It's a seriously dumb feature. I'm still a bit baffled that someone actually designed and developed it, thinking it was a good idea.
Re: Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365
#16It doesn't scroll new messages, but instead shows a button "New Messages" that you must click or mouse wheel scroll. We tried using Teams last night for release coordination. This misfeature made it practically unusable. It's a seriously dumb feature. I'm still a bit baffled that someone actually designed and developed it, thinking it was a good idea.
Watching the demo animation on the site it seems to scroll for new messages. Is it only when the application doesn't have focus that it stops scrolling?
Re: Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365
#17The cheapest plan for Office 365 that includes this is the $5/user/month, which undercuts Slack's pricing. It also includes a bunch of other stuff that I'm far less excited about; I wish they had gone with a more a la carte approach. I'm not confident that I'll be able to easily integrate this with the identities that I routinely use. Also, it seems like an unwieldy name -- "I'll 'team' that to you", or "let's discus…
or Microsoft Squanch
Re: Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365
#18The cheapest plan for Office 365 that includes this is the $5/user/month, which undercuts Slack's pricing. It also includes a bunch of other stuff that I'm far less excited about; I wish they had gone with a more a la carte approach. I'm not confident that I'll be able to easily integrate this with the identities that I routinely use. Also, it seems like an unwieldy name -- "I'll 'team' that to you", or "let's discus…
https://stratechery.com/2016/oracles-cloudy-future/
>Consider your typical Chief Information Officer in the pre-Cloud era: for various reasons she has bought in to some aspect of the Microsoft stack (likely Exchange). So, in order to support Exchange, the CIO must obviously buy Windows Server. And Windows Server includes Active Directory, so obviously that will be the identity service. However, now that the CIO has parts of the Microsoft stack in place, she is likely to be much more inclined to go with other Microsoft products as well, whether that be SQL Server, Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, etc. True, the Microsoft product may not always be the best in a vacuum, but no CIO operates in a vacuum: maintenance and service costs are a huge concern, and there is a lot to be gained by buying from fewer vendors rather than more. In fact, much of Microsoft’s growth over the last 15 years can be traced to Ballmer’s cleverness in exploiting this advantage through both new products and also new pricing and licensing agreements that heavily incentivized Microsoft customers to buy ever more from the company.
Re: Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365
#19It doesn't scroll new messages, but instead shows a button "New Messages" that you must click or mouse wheel scroll. We tried using Teams last night for release coordination. This misfeature made it practically unusable. It's a seriously dumb feature. I'm still a bit baffled that someone actually designed and developed it, thinking it was a good idea.
I have been using Teams for a few months now, never had this issue.
Re: Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365
#20When Office 365 came out, I mostly compared the price to Google Apps and didn't really think Office 365 brought that much value. Now, you can have a Google Apps, Slack, Trello, and Evernote alternative for your business under one subscription. Even if you choose the plan for installed Office applications on your computer, the price is still much more attractive than having to get a subscription for every one of the c…
What is the Trello alternative?
kantree.io I actually changed from Trello premium to Kantree.io on the strength of it's offering and the easy import from Trello.