Looks quite good, maybe worth to try it...
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
#82Strange 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.
Maybe the people sitting around the table are not a team, but friends who work at totally different organizations, and are currently using the product to stay connected to their teams?
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#83As somebody working in the healthcare industry, this is the killer feature for me: >Q. What level of security and compliance does Microsoft Teams support? >A. Microsoft Teams is expected to be Office 365 Tier C compliant at launch. This broad set of global compliance and data protection requirements includes ISO 27001, ISO 27018, EUMC, SOC 1 Type I & II, SOC 2 Type I and II, HIPAA and FERPA. Microsoft Teams also enfo…
Could you tell us what desires you have and what issues the healthcare industry is hitting with computer based tech ? As an ex computer fanatics I wanted to make medicine all digital and smooth (naive), I see it's not there, yet I'm not in Health so I have no idea what are the reasons. I expect "world chaos" to be part of them.
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#84Seems like a shame that it is bundled with the overhead of Office 365. Makes Slack feel like a lighter-weight option.
What overhead? If you don't want the other stuff don't use it.
Yeah I don't get it.
Even if you completely ignore the non-Teams aspect of it, you are still paying less money than for Slack.
Unless by overhead you mean whatever is the exact opposite of overhead.
Re: Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365
#85Somehow reminds me of Google Wave.
Re: Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365
#86Seems like a shame that it is bundled with the overhead of Office 365. Makes Slack feel like a lighter-weight option.
Teams is a webapp or a 68mb download. All of the other heavy lifting looks like sharepoint online in the background (onenote notebook, shared files.)
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#87Two really unique things I think this product does 1) The use of GIFs/memes. While this seems silly, it is actually a big deal because it lowers the formalization of communication. Having used this product, you just have much better free flowing conversation and many times these "fun" items help you get the message across significantly better (ex. asking for updates or bumping things can now be done in a funny way).…
Does it offer search of past messages?
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#88This actually looks really good, and considering the security/compliance features I'm seriously thinking of moving from Trello to "plans". It comes close to trello for UI and considering it's available through my organisation it means I can put non-public data in my weekly task lists too.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes! I'm so glad somebody else remembers Wave, it seems to have disappeared into the dustbin of history. I loved Wave before it was killed, and while I know a lot of people still hold grudges over Reader, Wave is the axed Google product I miss most. The fact that you could have multiple threaded conversations in the same chat room was one of the best features for me, and Teams seems like the first descendant to have…
Ah, wave. I wish instead of just throwing it at the world, hoping for people to figure out what to do with it, Google had used it as infrastructure to build a variety of applications. The problem with Wave was that it was too open ended for most people to figure out. Those who did figure out, loved it, and were burnt when Google shut it down. I still don't think there is a good equivalent to wave at the moment.
> The problem with Wave was that it was too open ended for most people to figure out. Those who did figure out, loved it, and were burnt when Google shut it down.
Yeah, this tallies with my experience. I was in two separate Wave teams (Waves?), one for a six-person software team and one for a large-ish social group of non-technical people. The software team took to it immediately and loved it; the social group was mostly baffled and used it sparingly.
If Google had only iterated on it they'd be a in a great spot right now, but I guess eventually every big technology company has their "Microsoft moment" when they kill a product only to see that category take off years later.
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#90Whatever 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.
Apparently the whole yammer team was working on this, since it's still not possible to edit and update post on yammer. Which is a pain to write longer posts with.