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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 gtirloni »

deanclatworthy wrote: post #33
aarpmcgee wrote: post #5

Seems 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.

Would it be much cheaper and easier to activate if it wasn't bundled with Office 365? I think that's where aarpmcgee was getting at.

In any case, this looks like a much better value proposition than Slack. However, I can test Slack in a second by going to their website. If I want to test MS Teams, I need to think about Office 365, sign up, find where to enable it, etc. Right now signing up for Slack is friction-less.

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

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Post by Periodic »

softwarefounder wrote: post #94

1) Is this a cloud/online product, or does it require desktop installation? 2) I see it mentioning the a Preview is available, but I can seem to find it on my Office 365 apps panel (I'm a Business Premium account/user).

1) It's both cloud based and has a desktop app. I believe the demo screenshots I saw were all in the browser though. 2) There was a mention that it wasn't available immediately but should start showing up somewhere in the dashboard around 1:30 EST. You might have to find it somewhere deep in the settings if I remember what someone else showed me. I.e. it's not in the main app grid by default and has to be enabled.

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

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Post by jitl »

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…

This is the opposite of my experience

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

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Post by monkmartinez »

thesimpsons1022 wrote: post #55
sz4kerto wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? OneNote lacking features?

probably means the buggy part. i worked at microsoft and one note worked great on windows but was shit on my mac. it wouldn't even sync properly

Have you used it lately? Works very well on my 10.11.x Mac... I also use a Asus Vivo note 8, and Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (my old work horse) and they all sync perfectly... at least now they do.

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

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Post by golf1052 »

Analemma_ wrote: post #76
dmode wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is not about the technology platform. You still have to dedicate resources to ensure feature parity across both OS systems. When MS starts selling Teams to huge enterprise customers (e.g., Walmart, Ford, GM etc.) that are on 99% Windows platform and the feature request and pressure starts building, where do you think the resources would go ? It is not MS fault, it is the nature of their business. Windows based ent…

> It is not about the technology platform. You still have to dedicate resources to ensure feature parity across both OS systems It is about the technology platform, because the amount of resources necessary to ensure feature parity is a function of the platfrom. Word for Windows and Word for Mac are probably two separate giant monsters of early-90's C++ and keeping them in sync is agony. Assuming Teams is written in…

Word for Windows and Word for Mac are much closer together than you may realize. Pretty interesting talk about cross platform Office.

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HROqnw-nf4 Part 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGMoRu5yrVc

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

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Post by ccurrens »

boundlessdreamz wrote: post #87
probe wrote: post #73

Two 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?

It seems to, yes. [0] It also looks like you can filter on date, team and channel, attachments, who it's from, messages where you're mentioned.

[0] http://imgur.com/DSmXg41

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

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Post by thr0waway1239 »

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…

By that measure, SharePoint is also an alternative to a lot of things, but it is universally reviled.

But your comment made me wonder about the problem of building a company which becomes a feature of a bigger competitor: I wonder what the folks at Slack, Trello and Evernote think about this new competition. Is this going to actually compete head on?

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

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Post by underbluewaters »

addicted wrote: post #80
Analemma_ wrote: post #69

Earlier 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.

My recollection was that it never even saw a proper 1.0 release before it was killed a year after announcement. I'd love to read an insider post-mortem of what happened there.

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

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Post by Yabood »

We're a team of five people all remote and in different time zones. We use Slack, and its been great, but we also use Office 365. Teams with its wide integration with all the different MS products is really cool. What I see missing here is mobile apps, and 3rd party integration. Once those are available we'll have no reason to pay the extra $300 a year for Slack.
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