Re:Microsoft Crushed Slack
by PaulHoule on Thursday December 03, 2020 @08:53AM
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I dunno.
They just installed Microsoft Teams on my work laptop. I guess somebody in my organization (10,000 employees) uses it, but it's not used in my workgroup -- which uses Slack.
Microsoft has harmed itself immeasurably by introducing multiple incompatible messaging products. MSN Messenger? Skype? Skype for Business? Linc?
The playbook is "take a successful messaging system and wreck it" and that's why their market share is a joke despite forcing installs on everybody. They need to just sit in one place and build, but somehow they can't do that.
Re:Microsoft Crushed Slack
by saurik on Thursday December 03, 2020 @05:50PM
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I have spent so long making fun of Google for doing that that I never even noticed Microsoft was doing it... I wonder why these large companies are so bad at realizing the network effects of unified chat with stable addressing?
They just installed Microsoft Teams on my work laptop. I guess somebody in my organization (10,000 employees) uses it, but it's not used in my workgroup -- which uses Slack.
Microsoft has harmed itself immeasurably by introducing multiple incompatible messaging products. MSN Messenger? Skype? Skype for Business? Linc?
The playbook is "take a successful messaging system and wreck it" and that's why their market share is a joke despite forcing installs on everybody. They need to just sit in one place and build, but somehow they can't do that.