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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by rsj_hn on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @07:54PM (#25272072)
> Microsoft has such a gigantic advantage when it comes to enterprise productivity software

Is that really true? I'm biased since I'm on the dev side, but everyone I know is using macbook pros, with very rare stragglers using windows or linux, and they use web clients for most stuff (e.g. gsuite, etc) rather than thick clients. I suspect with the push to working from home this will only accelerate.

This is a shame, since I like Microsoft Office products and am one of the few people I know who thinks VB is a great productivity tool, .Net is superior (in terms of language design) to Java, and Excel, Visio are better than anything else out there. But it's been almost a decade since anyone I know has needed to use that stuff in the office.

Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by bullfightonmars on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @10:20PM (#25272885)
My impression is that many if not most mid size and up orgs pay for the MS Suite at the company level. With 365 you can get the whole suite from email to docs, one drive, and teams.

Teams comes free with the suite. My company moved from webex + adhoc solutions to teams and it has worked well, at least for video chat.

MS office apps have decent support for Apple these days

Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by pjsnow on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @10:13PM (#25272853)
The overwhelming majority of consumers of enterprise software aren't devs, so you're correct to speak to your bias.