Microsoft Teams
A collaboration platform that combines workplace chat, meetings, file storage, and application integration.
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How Microsoft Teams compares
4 creators weighed in
Slack
Direct rival
business team chat platform
Both are platforms where teams add apps and work together. Kevin says Teams competing with Slack hurt Slack's business.
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Both are platforms where teams add apps and work together. Kevin says Teams competing with Slack hurt Slack's business.
"You either need to be an admin in Slack, or if you're a smaller team and anyone can add apps, or you need to be a tenant in Microsoft Teams. You go through onboarding and then you add Viktor into Slack or Microsoft Teams."
Paired with Slack as the two primary integration surfaces for Viktor
"I kind of misunderstood the dynamics between Microsoft Teams and Slack, which was kind of a miscalculation."
Competed with Slack; its strength hurt Slack's earnings
Zoom
Different focus
video conferencing software
Wendy uses Zoom for video calls and Teams separately for collaboration, calling the switch to Teams very different for her team.
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Wendy uses Zoom for video calls and Teams separately for collaboration, calling the switch to Teams very different for her team.
"Video conferencing, still Zoom — we use Zoom — but now have Microsoft Teams, which is very different for us."
Used alongside Zoom; noted as a significant change from prior setup
"In the age of Zoom and Teams and everything else out there, it's already happening in other ways."
Mentioned alongside Zoom as examples of virtual meeting platforms
What creators say
"It's crazy to see that they work in emails and in Microsoft Teams and in Excel sheets and PowerPoints, like their main channel where they work, and it's zero AI-enabled."
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"They're already on Microsoft Teams or the Google stack and they are on an enterprise software plan already."
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"You can do it with Slack, GitHub, Microsoft Teams, Linear, Sentry, and PagerDuty."
More from Riley Brown →"You either need to be an admin in Slack, or if you're a smaller team and anyone can add apps, or you need to be a tenant in Microsoft Teams. You go through onboarding and then you add Viktor into Slack or Microsoft Teams."
More from Matt Swulinski →"Video conferencing, still Zoom — we use Zoom — but now have Microsoft Teams, which is very different for us."
More from Wendy Ciehanski →"I kind of misunderstood the dynamics between Microsoft Teams and Slack, which was kind of a miscalculation."
More from Kevin Xu →"In the age of Zoom and Teams and everything else out there, it's already happening in other ways."
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"Maybe the next generation version of Microsoft Teams ends up including an organism feature and the human teams are all in sync with each other."
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"You think about Microsoft Teams, Outlook, like the standard Microsoft enterprise seat"
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"Microsoft Teams Outlook like the standard Microsoft enterprise seat I think it's about $30 per user per month"
"Their meeting was quickly interrupted by a message in the Microsoft Teams chat flagging that Nutella was in outer space"
"because that's how you show up on your Microsoft Teams or in the office, but not what you actually think."
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"Maybe they're sharing it within Slack maybe they're sharing it within Microsoft Teams"
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"What they were talking about was Zoom and Teams and how that enabled them to go remote."
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"The average worker receives 153 Teams messages. That's like Slack, Instant Messenger, per weekday. That adds up to 270 interruptions a day when you only have about 480 total minutes to work with."
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