Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon

Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by maitrik on Thursday June 15, 2017 @01:34AM (#14558116)

Really believe that Microsoft should have bought Slack. It makes perfect sense for them and aligns with their vision to be the productivity center of everyone's workflow.

Microsoft doesnt understand this space at all. Look what they are doing to Skype by making it more like Snapchat when their main use case is business related. Teams also feels so unfinished.

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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by ux-app on Thursday June 15, 2017 @01:58AM (#14558210)

>Look what they are doing to Skype by making it more like Snapchat

Yes I was definitely thrown for a loop with the new Skype that auto-installed on my phone. I'm a boring 37 year old developer that needs skype for business calls, why the hell does it now look like some teenager's social app?

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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by maitrik on Thursday June 15, 2017 @12:12PM (#14561693)

Exactly. Way to abandon most of older folks who actually purchase Skype credits.

PS. ux-app looks interesting. I can give some feed back as a designer if you want.

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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by ux-app on Thursday June 15, 2017 @07:11PM (#14565260)

> PS. ux-app looks interesting. I can give some feed back as a designer if you want.

Thanks :) and yes, I'd love to hear your feedback, me email is [email protected]

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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by toddmorey on Thursday June 15, 2017 @03:00PM (#14563358)

Microsoft is all over the map with collaboration apps—I can't really figure out where their head is at. They have Outlook Groups, GigJam, Teams (their new Slack clone), Sharepoint, and Yammer.

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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by TorKlingberg on Thursday June 15, 2017 @04:59AM (#14558829)

Microsoft buying Slack doesn't make sense to me, unless they buy it just to shut it down. MS already has Skype for Business (Lync) which is doing really well in more traditional companies. Their business strategy is all about integrating everything with all the other Microsoft products: Office, Outlook, Windows, Exchange, etc. Slack is completely stand-alone with an open API.

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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by taurath on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:22AM (#14558299)

Skypes main use case isn't business related, and you can tell because they still use freaking Lync on macs

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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by vertex-four on Thursday June 15, 2017 @05:11AM (#14558863)

Skype for Business is Lync, and has little to do with Skype proper.

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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by Nothorized on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:28AM (#14558324)

They also still use Lync on Windows, but it is unusable. Most of the teams in the company I am working for right now are either using Slack or Hipchat.

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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by noway421 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @05:17AM (#14558878)

> Skype by making it more like Snapchat when their main use case is business related Yes! Went downhill straight after the Metro/flat UI change.

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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by nerdwaller on Thursday June 15, 2017 @10:01AM (#14560433)

One thing I don't get is Microsoft Teams, which seems to be their closest Slack competitor, while they also have Skype and Lync.

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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by dexterdog on Thursday June 15, 2017 @12:53PM (#14562095)

MS is just following google's lead

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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by beambot on Thursday June 15, 2017 @04:37PM (#14564136)

Salesforce, Oracle, or IBM would make more sense to me...

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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by hans on Thursday June 15, 2017 @04:07PM (#14563931)

thankfully they did not, would've killed slack imo

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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by nerfhammer on Thursday June 15, 2017 @01:32PM (#14562452)

Don't they already own Yammer?

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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by latencyloser on Thursday June 15, 2017 @01:52PM (#14562651)

Yes, they do.

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Re:Slack Said to Draw Interest from Amazon by jmspring on Thursday June 15, 2017 @01:41AM (#14558147)

Don't generalize the company products with the company teams. I don't have an opinion on your comments on Skype. Teams is a competitor and tied to Active Directory. But many employees are involved in slack channels across Microsoft based, open sourced based, and other channels daily.

Slack/Teams/etc are tools. Real work will find the right tools and the right people and the right working model.

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