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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 3pt14159 »

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.

They are copying Apple [1]. It's supposed to demonstrate strength, since most competitors try to pretend that the competition doesn't exist. To me it always came off as really dumb and self-important in the most cringing of ways.

[1] http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/jobs-apple-welco...

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

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Post by devy »

I really like the fact that Microsoft stresses the security of this product:

    Broad compliance standards support
    Data encryption at all times, at-rest and in-transit
    Multi-factor authentication for enhanced identity protection
The only other thing I think they didn't mention in the feature set that Slack is much better is 3rd party API integrations.

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

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Post by ungzd »

garysieling wrote: post #25
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.

So if company prefers printed documents and bureacracy, why not just talk by telephone or use Microsoft Lync? Why they're trying to combine these dusty office things with hipster web interface?

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

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Post by Mithaldu »

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.

The "do it with love" part is especially funny as their support doesn't actually give a shit what their customers think or feel. They'll happily give you absolute bottom-of-the-barrel effort canned copy-paste responses to carefully written and considered bug reports, indicating the agent neither actually read nor remotely understood what you were writing about.

Slack doesn't have a box to stand on to tell others how to treat people.

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

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Post by overcast »

Mithaldu wrote: post #35
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.

The "do it with love" part is especially funny as their support doesn't actually give a shit what their customers think or feel. They'll happily give you absolute bottom-of-the-barrel effort canned copy-paste responses to carefully written and considered bug reports, indicating the agent neither actually read nor remotely understood what you were writing about. Slack doesn't have a box to stand on to tell others how…

That part was almost unreadable, it was so cringe worthy. "Made with Love" movement is a meme in itself at this point.

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

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Post by vvanders »

dmode wrote: post #36

I won't trust Microsoft to make the Mac version of this product as good as the Window's version. There is a long history of Office development that supports this conclusion. If you use Mac in your workplace, probably best to stay away from MS stack

I could have thought I saw that it web-based so it should work fine on any platform?

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

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Post by boundlessdreamz »

EduardoBautista wrote: post #2

When 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…

The only problem is the products I have tried on mac (OneNote, OneDrive) & Android (OneNote) were very buggy/slow/missing features in other platforms.

I wish it was otherwise. As you said, they do have a good suite of apps at a fair price

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