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

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I'm not saying that MS' support will be any better. Just that "you get an actual person to talk to AND they actually know a little AND might even help you if your issue is simple enough" doesn't quite make the grade for "treats customers with love".

I had the understanding that Slack never used bots when responding to support requests...

Sometimes even biological people fail the Turing test.

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

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

Not all license types include the desktop apps. Lower-tier licenses are web-only.

Pretty sure Web only became totally free a couple years ago. All paid version include desktop version too.

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

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The requirement to have an Office 365 account will not allow it to grow. I understand Microsoft wants people to pay for Office 365 and then for more and more services, but they need to have a free tier so that influencers can try out their solutions, and then the money will come on its own! So, the "new" Microsoft is not really "new" in its marketing strategy. I was unpleasantly surprised that as a developer I cannot…

Gees, I guess they will be constrained to their 60M paying customers and their 1,2B employees. Tough life.

Well, you oversimplify things, and that's a very typical fallacy. Just like they have a market today, without something to keep people loyal, it can dissolve pretty quickly. Look at Apple! With their arrogance and laziness, they are going down the drain fast. Android runs on 9 out of 10 phones, people are swapping Macs for Surface, and things didn't look like this not so long ago! Arrogance and laziness killed MySpace, too!

You always need to flirt with your customers and mostly - with the influencers! Microsoft used this strategy to flirt with developers!

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

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That part was almost unreadable, it was so cringe worthy. "Made with Love" movement is a meme in itself at this point.

At the risk of sounding like a grump, something about the emojis in software movement really aggravates me. When I see "Made with love" or the hideous heart eye smiley, something makes me just not want to use the software that's showing it.

I agree. I guess it is to seem more like buddies, I think it is strange dynamic. I am paying for the product, I don't want an emoji response.

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

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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.

It takes nearly 2 seconds to switch from Teams to direct messages, that is inexcusable.

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

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Microsoft is charging $6/month/user for online office/teams/1tb storage/50gb email storage/skypebiz/conference calling Slack $7/month/user just for teams :/// anyhow i hate office so i am gonna stick to gsuite..

Slack is going to be a crazy $30/person/month when the enterprise version launches next year !

Currently it costs $12.50 per enterprise user per month.

https://paypal.slack.com/pricing/slack-for-teams

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

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I am the Enterprise Admin...that's what I'm confused about, since I already went through their simple 3 steps to get started video which was essentially just flipping a switch in the Office 365 Admin area. I expected it to work right away, but then couldn't see where the actual main page for Teams was, so I kept on looking and eventually found it, but even so, it didn't seem to allow me to login yet...right now I'm c…

Ever figure this out? I did the same thing today! I enabled it, and both the app/browser version say I need to enable it. Already did, but maybe it just takes a little while.

Hi Kratisto...yup I did. It appears that Teams isn't actually for our type of organization yet (since we're an EDU organization using Office 365...seems like it won't be available to us until early next year so we'll have to wait until then from the responses I received back from our Microsoft sales people over at Computer Land).
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