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Microsoft Teams overtakes Slack with 13M daily users

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Re: Microsoft Teams overtakes Slack with 13M daily users

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The key difference is that an active user on Microsoft Teams is someone with an outlook mailbox, and an active user on Slack is someone who uses Slack

That's not how it works.

That's not how it works to a reasonable person, but marketers can count however best suits them.

Re: Microsoft Teams overtakes Slack with 13M daily users

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I tried using Slack in my business and found it to be not as effective as Basecamp. Basecamp has very strong project management and communication features EXCEPT it is hard to order by priority if you have multiple users and multiple projects.

Also - Slack is WAY more expensive than Basecamp. I would pay $1,000+ per month for Slack vs the $100 something I am paying each month for Basecamp.

Re: Microsoft Teams overtakes Slack with 13M daily users

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The key difference is that an active user on Microsoft Teams is someone with an outlook mailbox, and an active user on Slack is someone who uses Slack

Are you claiming that microsoft counts "outlook daily active users" as "teams daily active users"? Cause the article specifies "daily active users", not "signed up" or anything like that.

Re: Microsoft Teams overtakes Slack with 13M daily users

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post #6

I tried using Slack in my business and found it to be not as effective as Basecamp. Basecamp has very strong project management and communication features EXCEPT it is hard to order by priority if you have multiple users and multiple projects. Also - Slack is WAY more expensive than Basecamp. I would pay $1,000+ per month for Slack vs the $100 something I am paying each month for Basecamp.

Yea. I have no problem (well, few problems) with the Slack product, but it’s way more expensive than its competitors.

Re: Microsoft Teams overtakes Slack with 13M daily users

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post #2

The key difference is that an active user on Microsoft Teams is someone with an outlook mailbox, and an active user on Slack is someone who uses Slack

Are you claiming that microsoft counts "outlook daily active users" as "teams daily active users"? Cause the article specifies "daily active users", not "signed up" or anything like that.

They’re rebranding Skype for business as teams meetings, and pretty soon anyone who uses Office 365 for video calls for meetings will end up being counted as a teams user (even if they don’t sign in to teams or ever look at chat).

This isn’t too far off, although it’s new enough I doubt it has a massive impact on the 13m number.

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