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Microsoft to Separate Teams From Office to Avoid EU Antitrust Scrutiny

Microsoft has decided to unbundle Microsoft Teams with its Office software. According to a report from the Financial Times, this move could potentially help to avoid an formal antitrust investigation by EU regulators. Slack lodged an anticompetition complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission (EC) back in July 2020. The company argued that Microsoft “illegally”...

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Understanding the technology and capabilities of Microsoft Teams

Last Update: Aug 26, 2022

Much excitement was sparked when Microsoft introduced Teams, their purported Slack-killer, on November 2. Now that everyone’s calmed down a tad and we’ve had the time to get some solid hands-on time with Teams, it’s appropriate to look at what Microsoft has delivered and explore the strengths and weaknesses of Teams.

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Slack Releases Fix for Critical Bug That Exposed Hashed Passwords for Years

Slack has confirmed that a security vulnerability accidentally exposed the hashed passwords of around 0.5 percent of its customers. The company patched the bug last month and notified impacted users that it had reset their passwords. The vulnerability was first discovered by a security researcher and it was reported to Slack on July 17, 2022….

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Rich in Microsoft History, Salesforce to Acquire Slack

SalesForce has announced that it will be buying Slack for $27.7 billion – a 28x Net Twelve Months Revenue. To do this, Salesforce will be paying $26.79 in cash + 0.0776 shares of common stock for each share of Slack.

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Slack and Teams: Complaint is Weak and Filled with Leading Statements

Slack’s Odd Complaint I read the news that Slack filed a competition complaint against Microsoft in the EU on July 22 with a mixture of mirth and despair. Mirth because of the allegations advanced by Slack; despair because a company like Slack would resort to such a tactic. Slack’s complaint says that “Microsoft has illegally…

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How Slack Integrates with Teams for Calling

Slack has revealed its add-on for Teams calling to dispel the mystery (at least in my mind) for how they would create a calling integration without Microsoft’s help. As it turns out, Slack has taken some work they already had and the fact that Teams has URIs for meetings and combined them together to get their integration done. Very smart|

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Slack Wants to Integrate with Teams – But How?

The Slack CEO says that the company is working on a calling integration with Teams. Slack hasn’t released any technical information, which leads to a certain amount of speculation as to how such an integration might happen. Slack’s previous attempts to integrate with Office 365 applications haven’t been too successful, but perhaps a federated hook-up like the one between Skype consumer and Teams might work.

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Google Is Building a Slack, Not a Teams

For the past half-decade or so, Google has been trying feverishly to crack the enterprise market with its cloud and productivity application. While the company has made some serious in-roads, with its cloud services growing and the adoption of its productivity suite, Google Apps, often becoming the preferred choice for small companies, Microsoft still rules the roost for the productivity market.

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Change in Management Philosophy Needed to Accelerate Teams Growth

Microsoft Teams is very successful at present, but a nagging doubt exists that some of the approaches taken by Microsoft towards Teams management and administration are less than optimum. It’s great to introduce a mass of new features on an ongoing basis and it’s better when policies exist to control the use of the features. But do new features always need to be enabled out-of-the-box?

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Slack Rolls out New Enterprise Controls

Slack is rolling out new enterprise features for its customers that will help the platform move deeper into the corporate messaging space.

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