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Re:An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft by Gravityloss on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:26AM (#25356813)
Many people using Outlook run Teams meetings, because it's just one button click away in Outlook. Compare to others where you have to go to a different tool and create a meeting and copy-paste a link.

The antitrust way would be to have Outlook have buttons for a lot of different meeting services out of the box. Many don't require installing any software (Google meet for example). It's all just API:s.

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Re:An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft by Gh0stRAT on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @05:23AM (#25357161)
My employer's Outlook does have a button for a competing meeting service. (WebEx)

Some people are starting to use Teams for their meetings now because some of them like it better than WebEx, but it is exactly the same amount of effort to schedule either of them directly from Outlook.

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Re:An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft by Gravityloss on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @08:56AM (#25358430)
In my opinion, Webex is very old and for example Linux compatibility is worse than Teams.
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Re:An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft by addicted on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @07:10AM (#25357754)
Anyone can build a 1 click experience similar to the Teams add-in for outlook.
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Re:An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft by Gravityloss on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @08:58AM (#25358463)
So some kind of plugin?
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Re:An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft by bradstewart on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @09:53AM (#25359041)
Yep. For instance, there's a Zoom plugin that puts a "make a Zoom meeting" button right there as well.
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Re:An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft by Godel_unicode on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @09:57AM (#25359095)
That's how teams does it, yes.
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