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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 monkmartinez »

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…

Wow that is huge... HIPPA is a massive headache for industries that have typically been very "blue collar" Ie. EMS/Firefighting. We are always looking for ways to communicate more effectively, especially for our most at risk citizens (coordinating agencies). This could be an almost real-time notification system... hmm.

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

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Post by red_admiral »

elcct wrote: post #38

Great, but would I trust Microsoft with my data? I don't think so.

I would happily trust microsoft's corporate cloud - and the certification and insurance that presumably comes with it. Even the public-facing OneDrive I'd consider better than many of the alternatives (such as Dropbox) - MS has some pretty good security engineers.

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

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Post by commandar »

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.

If I'm understanding your question correctly, the single biggest obstacle in healthcare informatics today is interoperability. The industry grew up in a pretty ad hoc way and the result is that closed-off silos of data are pretty much the norm; every vendor has their own ideas about how data should be handled, and getting different systems talking to each other is a full-time job (my job, coincidentally).

HITECH and the ACA have forced the industry to start making meaningful steps toward real interop, but I'd say we're at least a decade out from it being less of a nightmare than it is now.

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

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Post by mbernstein »

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

Have you used the latest office on a Mac? It's really, really well done.

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

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Post by lawnchair_larry »

ccurrens wrote: post #47
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

From what I can tell, it's written in Electron. I assume they did this so that they could share the code base between desktop (win/mac), ios/android/winphone, and web -- keeping the features sets the same on all platforms. VS Code is the same way and that works beautifully on Mac. I expect that same for this. Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft (Azure) but have no relation to Office or Microsoft Teams.

Electron is complete shit, especially for long running processes. Might as well use the browser version.

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

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Post by ohitsdom »

JustSomeNobody wrote: post #30

Yammer with a new skin?

To the other replies suggesting similar products from different vendors, you're missing the point. Microsoft bought Yammer in 2012 so could have very well used a lot of the same tech under the hood of Teams.

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

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Post by qq66 »

Edd314159 wrote: post #4

Strange choice of hero photo to promote a chat-based virtual workspace: a team of people sitting around a table, thus having no need for the product.

I think they're marketing how you'll feel when you use the product, not what it looks like to use the product.

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

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Post by commandar »

brudgers wrote: post #77
ianai wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Adhering to industry compliance specs definitely opens the possibility of a captive audience.

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 gorilla like Microsoft stepping in to get those techs our way because Microsoft's customer base has to worry about that sort of thing.

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