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Re: Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the EU over Teams, Office 365

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Google+

Seriously? Before any search was entered? I'll take your word for it. Also it would just be another example that Google tried to enter social media as well using this tactic.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-is-running-a-massive-...

Re: Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the EU over Teams, Office 365

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> I've never used Teams, but I hear so much complaining about it. People will complain about anything, though. The nature of my work has me dealing with all of these platforms, depending on the clients. Guess what? I don't find Slack to be some joyous piece of software to use. It's better than the alternatives, I guess, but not to the point that I really care one way or the other. Some people complain about the bundl…

> Some people complain about the bundling, but that can be really convenient for your organization. If you have Organizations that have a lot of loose capital and cowboy investors might be more interested in playing in traffic with 20+ vendors and horrible integration stories, but we (aka our solutions to paying customers or we don't have any jobs in 12 months. I always hear everyone complain about how expensive it i…

>I genuinely question how much you care about the success of your business

If you run a <50 person company, and you're bike-shedding about which chat program to use, I seriously question how much you care about your business.

Re: Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the EU over Teams, Office 365

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Teams is a security nightmare, and Sharepoint as well. Access permissions are nearly impossible to grasp for normal users. The feature that all files dropped are shared instantly by everyone through sharepoint is a huge security risk. People in general have no understanding that they are sharing files with everyone that can join a Teams channel, meaning that confidential and sensitive information frequently gets adde…

What if there was a free, open source alternative for Teams? I don’t mean Matrix or Mastodon. I mean something you could run on-prem and it would have chats, meetings, attach files etc. Do you know anything like this?

https://www.freie-messenger.de/en/systemvergleich -> e.g. XMPP

like Matrix: https://www.freie-messenger.de/en/systemvergleich/team/

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