How Microsoft crushed Slack

Re:How Microsoft crushed Slack by tjayy on Sunday December 06, 2020 @03:13AM (#25321985)

Zoom has most of this as well, one click creating meeting in calendar invite with all your dial in information

Outlook reminders will say click to join zoom meeting.

And the zoom client will have a list of your upcoming meetings

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Re:How Microsoft crushed Slack by bladegash on Sunday December 06, 2020 @03:46AM (#25322115)

Fair point, but I have used Zoom and GoToMeeting’s integrations with Outlook and there may be some similar (or identical) features, but the experience with Teams is a far more integrated experience in Outlook.

Further, why leave the Microsoft O365 ecosystem if you’re already using it? Teams offers other capabilities and integrations that Zoom doesn’t have and the Teams integration does not require additional user action to add to Outlook (it’s there by default). Other value adds for enterprises include centralized identity/license/user management via the existing O365 admin portal/Azure AD, singular invoicing, consistent SLA with single vendor, etc. I haven’t looked into Zoom’s SSO integrations with things like AD or Azure AD, but again, that’s another example of resistance for enterprise customers/system administrators.

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Re:How Microsoft crushed Slack by andor on Sunday December 06, 2020 @10:49AM (#25324240)

As far as I understand, it is Microsoft who are putting third parties at an unfair disadvantage by not offering them the same level of integration.

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Re:How Microsoft crushed Slack by bladegash on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:32AM (#25333083)

I don’t disagree with you and other companies do the same thing to Microsoft. Just saying it’s reality at this point in time and at least for now, offers an advantage for Teams.

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