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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

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Post by jlarocco »

Edd314159 wrote: post #4

Strange choice of hero photo to promote a chat-based virtual workspace: a team of people sitting around a table, thus having no need for the product.

I personally don't choose products based on their marketing photos, but that one seems fine to me. The group are obviously interacting and engaged in their conversation, which is probably what the marketing people were trying to convey.

Re: Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365

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Post by overcast »

WHAT was Slack thinking writing this?!

http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/2/13497766/slack-microsoft-t...

Is this the worst ad in the history of advertising? HUGE publicity for Microsoft, with a schoolboy level of condescending, passive aggressive nonsense. Not sure what they were thinking with this one, especially with an opening line doing nothing but praising their competitor.

The confidence(arrogance) is astounding.

Re: Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365

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Post by garysieling »

ungzd wrote: post #11

I don't understand how chat service can be so intertwined with printer-first applications (Word, Excel).

A lot of large documents are team efforts, and you'd start with a discussion outside the document before it moves into comments inside.

Re: Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365

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Post by algorithmsRcool »

overcast wrote: post #24

WHAT was Slack thinking writing this?! http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/2/13497766/slack-microsoft-t... Is this the worst ad in the history of advertising? HUGE publicity for Microsoft, with a schoolboy level of condescending, passive aggressive nonsense. Not sure what they were thinking with this one, especially with an opening line doing nothing but praising their competitor. The confidence(arrogance) is astounding.

That was actually how I found out about Teams to post this. Slack didn't do themselves any favors with that post.

Re: Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365

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Post by Touche »

overcast wrote: post #24

WHAT was Slack thinking writing this?! http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/2/13497766/slack-microsoft-t... Is this the worst ad in the history of advertising? HUGE publicity for Microsoft, with a schoolboy level of condescending, passive aggressive nonsense. Not sure what they were thinking with this one, especially with an opening line doing nothing but praising their competitor. The confidence(arrogance) is astounding.

Yep, I had never heard of Teams but now am going to consider it for my startup.

Re: Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365

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Post by seren »

mtgx wrote: post #21

Whatever happened to Microsoft's billion dollar Yammer acquisition? Has it already been added to the company's write-off fall of fame? Hmm, kind of looks like it, doesn't it? http://venturebeat.com/2016/09/26/microsoft-is-killing-yamme... Is Skype next?

The headline is misleading, it is only that Yammer is not a standalone product anymore but is part of the Office365 suite.

Re: Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365

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Post by EduardoBautista »

overcast wrote: post #24

WHAT was Slack thinking writing this?! http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/2/13497766/slack-microsoft-t... Is this the worst ad in the history of advertising? HUGE publicity for Microsoft, with a schoolboy level of condescending, passive aggressive nonsense. Not sure what they were thinking with this one, especially with an opening line doing nothing but praising their competitor. The confidence(arrogance) is astounding.

All Office 365 customers who are on Slack must be seriously considering moving over to Microsoft Teams right now. They are basically letting them know they have an alternative.
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