Slack CEO: Microsoft is 'Unhealthily Preoccupied With Killing Us'

[Hood Critic]

Also crazy I’ve lived in the tech bubble where we’ve all been on g-suite + asana/trello/Monday + jira/confluence + a few adobe products depending on your role, haven’t used MSFT products at work in over 5 years

Which makes sense for companies whose core business is built on tech or is tech. Other corporations established their business in the days of no or ancient tech, so their initial foray was almost always through MS.

 

[Da_Eggman]

that's been Gates MO from the start shout out to steve jobs for being the only one to give him that work....thou he was a scumbag as well

 

[Warren Moon]

Yeah we in the process of moving to teams fully

quick and easy. I moved my team in Feb. The entire organization did this month. Way better product to me, they just lack some integrations.

It actually like really weird how Zoom has just taken over the video conferencing game. Is it that much more superior to google, Skype, Windows, etc.?

China . They can absorb losses currently and Chinese investors invested heavily in the ZOOM IPO and are now doing so again heavily causing its stock to increase.

Cheaper Chinese Engineers, Cheaper Cloud Costs (subsidized by China).

Theres a very interesting story about Covid-19, the Wuhan laboratory, China paying UT Texas when the ZOOM CEO was at UT Texas.

Its hard to untangle but there's some really really shady shyt going on. US Dept. of Ed requests UT records with Wuhan lab, Zoom CEO

Microsoft Teams is shyt.

It cheaper and better. Plus organizations get to keep and monitor all their data. Thats why people are moving away from Slack too

 

[Macallik86]

Random AF, but I expected the Slack CEO to have some claim about underhandedness by Microsoft. It just sounds like an admission that Microsoft is eating away their market share lol.

There's 0 reason why any company on O365 paying for E3/E5 licenses wouldn't adopt Teams.

The Meetings integration with Outlook is . We used it occasionally pre-covid but our main tool for remote meetings was GoToMeetings. Since everything is remote nowadays, we have gotten accustom to Teams, and I don't see us utilizing anything that isn't built into Microsoft's package since that is how we structure our time in the corporate setting.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

Random AF, but I expected the Slack CEO to have some claim about underhandedness by Microsoft. It just sounds like an admission that Microsoft is eating away their market share lol.



The Meetings integration with Outlook is . We used it occasionally pre-covid but our main tool for remote meetings was GoToMeetings. Since everything is remote nowadays, we have gotten accustom to Teams, and I don't see us utilizing anything that isn't built into Microsoft's package since that is how we structure our time in the corporate setting.

Go to Meeting. I remember that shyt. lol

 

[yseJ]

Which makes sense for companies whose core business is built on tech or is tech. Other corporations established their business in the days of no or ancient tech, so their initial foray was almost always through MS.

azure is a big cloud player nowadays


slack is really, really, really great if you're a dev. the integration with apps is amazing. I get all notifications for my github repo pull requests/comments/branch creations in one channel, get pagerduty notifications in another channel, get ci pipeline notifications in third channel, have multiple multi-people chats/groups that are easily searchable and can hold all downloads, withc custom visibility....shyt is awesome as a dev work 'messenger'

I remember when I was using skype for business on multiple devices 5-6 years ago shyt was trash

 

[Hood Critic]

azure is a big cloud player nowadays


slack is really, really, really great if you're a dev. the integration with apps is amazing. I get all notifications for my github repo pull requests/comments/branch creations in one channel, get pagerduty notifications in another channel, get ci pipeline notifications in third channel, have multiple multi-people chats/groups that are easily searchable and can hold all downloads, withc custom visibility....shyt is awesome as a dev work 'messenger'

I remember when I was using skype for business on multiple devices 5-6 years ago shyt was trash

AWS is an even bigger player.

I think anyone who technically savvy prefers Slack to anything MS offers but MS has always targeted the corporate environment and the typical corporate users.

 

[yseJ]

AWS is an even bigger player.

I think anyone who technically savvy prefers Slack to anything MS offers but MS has always targeted the corporate environment and the typical corporate users.

My company used to be AWS only. Now it's multicloud with emphasis on Azure. Azure is getting big.

 

[Hood Critic]

My company used to be AWS only. Now it's multicloudbwith emphasis on Azure. Azure is getting big.

We use a mixture of both as well, more so because my organization is hella risk adverse and doesn't want to put all their eggs in one basket.

I find that Office 365 really kinda gently pushes organization into Azure even if they don't want to be there. A slight win for the house that Bill built.

 

[yseJ]

We use a mixture of both as well, more so because my organization is hella risk adverse and doesn't want to put all their eggs in one basket.

I find that Office 365 really kinda gently pushes organization into Azure even if they don't want to be there. A slight win for the house that Bill built.

it's more that our customers don't want to be locked into one cloud vendor.

I totally forgot about office/outlook

@dora_da_destroyer you don't use outlook or office 365 in office?

 

[Rickdogg44]

Yeah we in the process of moving to teams fully

I hate it. Maybe it is how we set it up or how we use it. Just a way so that everyone in the damn "team thread" gives their two cents about things now... and have no clue the details/issue.. just spitting out mindless business jargon.... or asking dumb questions

VP and other ppl getting involved because they are basically "copied" now with TEAM visibility... i rather just use email and cc ppl that actually need to know...

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

it's more that our customers don't want to be locked into one cloud vendor.

I totally forgot about office/outlook

@dora_da_destroyer you don't use outlook or office 365 in office?

Nope gmail and the g-suite for productivity tools, altho some one off licenses get granted for PowerPoint or excel

 

[Trav]

My org on that Cisco Webex wave. I hope they don't switch to Teams or Zoom. The whole Cisco package been pretty good so far. I don't see no reason there would be to switch.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

My company used to be AWS only. Now it's multicloudbwith emphasis on Azure. Azure is getting big.

What do y'all like about azure vs aws?

Is it a price thing?

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

it's more that our customers don't want to be locked into one cloud vendor.

I totally forgot about office/outlook

@dora_da_destroyer you don't use outlook or office 365 in office?

NVM

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