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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 mhermher »

sailingparrot wrote: post #54
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 have used Teams for a few months on Mac and Windows (most time spent on Mac), this is the exact same quality: thanks electron.

Nice, this is the message I was looking for. Was hoping it would get more love on Mac than Skype4B has.

Our small team within a giant org is using hipchat, but it's near impossible to get anyone else from the org on there for shared projects. Maybe they'll be more receptive to MS Team.

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

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Post by maxxxxx »

agumonkey wrote: post #83
commandar wrote: post #51

As 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.

I work in health care and to me the worst thing is that there are a lot of disjointed systems you need to bring together. As a lowly developer I don't feel I am qualified to make a judgment about the security aspects but the price the company has to pay for a breach is huge. So it's the uncertainty knowing whether what you are doing is right or not.

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

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Post by mhermher »

ungzd wrote: post #11

I don't understand how chat service can be so intertwined with printer-first applications (Word, Excel).

Are they really printer first? I use excel almost daily and Word almost as much, but I don't even remember the last time I printed an excel or word doc.

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

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Post by Yabood »

mingyeow wrote: post #123
Yabood wrote: post #110

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.

why office 365 vs google docs?

There are many reasons really, but the most important one is that we're a .NET shop, and run our stack on top of Azure. Office 365 integrates well with Azure and everything MS. AD and Exchange management, SSO, MSDN, etc.. It all just works.

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

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Post by overcast »

mhermher wrote: post #137
3pt14159 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Off topic note here: Apple forecasts a "logarithmic leap". I have never heard that term. Logarithmic growth is sub linear and doesn't seem like something akin to a leap. Usually you would go with "exponential". Just seemed like odd wording.

Well they weren't wrong, growth leveled off to nothing. More a reverse logarithmic graph.

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

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Post by devopsproject »

mingyeow wrote: post #123
Yabood wrote: post #110

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.

why office 365 vs google docs?

not op but office365 includes desktop versions of word, excel, outlook, etc and they are faster and have more features.

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

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Post by Touche »

digi_owl wrote: post #129
Analemma_ wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 mo…

Thinking about it, i feel that Wave shutting down was a turning point for Google. It was built on XMPP, and allowed anyone to spin up their own Wave server that could talk to any other such server (iirc). At the time Google (and also Facebook) used XMPP as the backend for their messaging service, and was even working on a extension for video and voice communications (libjingle?). But then all that was scuttled, and t…

The turning point was when Larry Page became CEO. For years Google tried to beat Facebook with open specs/protocols like XMPP, but there was also Activity Streams and others (PubSubHubbub). None of those really took off.

I think Larry Page made the company more product focused and a few successes, like Hangouts, "validated" that it was the better approach than focusing on open protocols.

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

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Post by brudgers »

commandar wrote: post #100
brudgers wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or serving unserved organizations, or both, depending on how one looks at it.

I mean, like I said above, my team would love to be using Slack, but it's legally impossible for us to use in a way that would improve our current workflow. And honestly, that's not just limited to Slack; it's not at all unusual for me to run into slick new technologies and products that I'd love for us to be able to use, but things like "not breaking Federal laws" get in the way. Sometimes it does take an 800lbs gor…

For many organizations, running something like RocketChat inhouse might be an alternative...I mean, how many of Slack's features add most of the value?

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

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Post by commandar »

brudgers wrote: post #148
commandar wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, like I said above, my team would love to be using Slack, but it's legally impossible for us to use in a way that would improve our current workflow. And honestly, that's not just limited to Slack; it's not at all unusual for me to run into slick new technologies and products that I'd love for us to be able to use, but things like "not breaking Federal laws" get in the way. Sometimes it does take an 800lbs gor…

For many organizations, running something like RocketChat inhouse might be an alternative...I mean, how many of Slack's features add most of the value?

Then you have to provision hardware to run it and someone to set it up and admin it. And deal with backups and data retention, etc.

Healthcare IT teams tend to run ridiculously lean. There's a much stronger business case for paying a few bucks per user/month than take up expensive and generally highly limited sysadmin time rolling your own.

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

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Post by jagermo »

ungzd wrote: post #11

I don't understand how chat service can be so intertwined with printer-first applications (Word, Excel).

I am not sure if you are trolling, but on the chance you are not:

Let me take you through my workflow. I write content for companies, e.g. whitepapers, interviews, blogs and the like. If I have to deal with only one internal "stakeholder", its not a problem.

Briefing, first draft, one additional call, final version.

Now, as soon as you more or "higher" people join the creation process, the amount of digital files increases, as does the e-mail-chain, as doe the calls.

If I can just join a company chat about, throw in a document into the mix and get one after the other to sign of on the documents, that would cut down on the amount of version beeing sent around and thus make life easier for me.

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