I'm so tired of hearing this argument. The amount of revenue generated by customers who use only Microsoft Teams without an Office365 subscription is exactly $0 [1]. MS gives you exactly 2 options to get teams:
1. Free
2. Included as part of Office365.
Teams is currently eatings Slacks lunch, but the lunch was paid for by a corporate IT guy who switched to Office365 so he could lay off some IT admins and save some money compared to managing an on-premise Exchange server.
They totally do, especially at big companies. You need to show that you made a difference, and rolled out new communication platform for the whole company, not just for 5%.
We don't have _less_ staff due to migrating from Exchange Server to EXO -- quite the opposite (and the remainder of the M365 stack has significantly grown IT, as well).
Given that
- Microsoft considered an $8B acquisition early 2016
- Salesforce does a $28B acquisition late 2020
That's only about 3x growth in almost 5 years. Don't get me wrong, this is a massive acquisition, but I still say "only" given the hypergrowth experienced by many adjacent tech companies.
So I think Microsoft may be quite happy they decided not to acquire Slack at such a high tag price nearly 5 years ago.
> (62.5% market share – although given the amount of broken websites (some explicitly Chrome-only!) I’ve found since switching to Firefox.
There is a reason why this percentage is high. Other browsers suck, firefox for me takes forever to start and don't get me started about how long it takes to load a website. It has been copying chrome with it's last few updates but still way too far. I would happily switch to an alternative to chrome which is equally good or atleast is near it but there aren't any I believe.
What are you running on? I'm not saying you're wrong at all, but I've not seen any startup or load time differences on my macbook or win 10 desktop. If anything firefox is a bit faster and consumes less memory on my macbook.
I am pretty sure, bitbucket is going to get hurt with this move, and a little hurt for gitlab too I suspect. But a very smart move specially for individual developers looking to work on small side projects.
As long as country doesn't mandates using cashless payment modes, launching new payment apps won't help. Country already has too many such apps, with google bringing another it will only eat the competitions share of profit, instead of increasing the demand. Indian people still aren't very comfortable with online payments. They still like to trade in cash.
Currently UPI transactions are free (except for a few banks). So many are transferring using this. Once they start charging the user for transaction, this will drop. Even if the charge is .50 paise.
With Microsoft’s Teams catching up, i think Slack need more than just funding and valuation. I have been using it for while and doesn't see much of the development happening. Only thing they have introduced is "Threads", and nothing else which is noticeable.
I would love to see few of these in Slack:
- Video calling
- Storage
- Private Sharing
- Guest member
- Meeting rooms
I don't see meeting rooms..
i don't see guest member feature..
i don't see functionality where i can share stuff privately with someone outside of slack...
storage?? where is it that feature, i desperately need that..
Microsoft must be cursing their decision right now..