Even with 49% up sales and a 46% drop in expenses Slack still cant turn a profit

Re:Even with 49% up sales and a 46% drop in expenses Slack s... by rdtwo on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:09PM (#24423162)

I think Microsoft is basically giving teams away because it’s such a piece of Shiite. Our school district is using it and everyone hates it. Hard to compete with free though

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Re:Even with 49% up sales and a 46% drop in expenses Slack s... by addicted on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @03:20PM (#24424762)

I find Teams far more effective than Slack.

School districts will almost certainly hate everything they were forced to start using over the last few months because their entire workflow has changed dramatically. From top to bottom and they’re having to invent new things on the fly. They will almost certainly get stuff wrong.

Normally, such a radical change would have involved months if not years of planning, followed by months of trials, before even being deployed in 1 class for 1 subject.

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Re:Even with 49% up sales and a 46% drop in expenses Slack s... by gamblor956 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:22PM (#24423336)

In contrast, most of the medical workers I know use Teams for telehealth...and they love it.

It's a better app than Google Whatever (Hangouts? Meet? Duo???) and Cisco WebEx, though Zoom is much easier to use for larger meetings.

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Re:Even with 49% up sales and a 46% drop in expenses Slack s... by prepend on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @02:23PM (#24424070)

I think Teams is my favorite video app, but I find it lacking in persistent chat.

My org uses Teams and I’m now a member of probably 30 teams with lots of channels each. I ignore them all as there’s too many.

Slack is different because I just join specific communities.

Also text search is bad right now in Teams, but is handy in Slack.

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