News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.. Parent comment

Re:France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Tea... by tdrz on Monday January 26, 2026 @03:21PM (#46770958)
> It’s great yes, but if we in the US weren’t proving so untrustworthy, EU startups and tech giants could focus on building things that actually might out innovate us and everyone else. Which would be a win-win. Instead they will spend a lot time duplicating tools where only US companies are providing options, and maybe not innovating much if anything in those areas. Or not enough to matter much.

You could apply this to Slack vs Teams as well. Slack was already good, Microsoft just duplicated their work, came out with an inferior product and won. So, was it worth it?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Tea... by XorNot on Monday January 26, 2026 @03:36PM (#46771136)
Teams won by being good enough and bundled into O365. There's probably some value in making a product so available that people can use it where normally they wouldn't have the opportunity.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Tea... by ornornor on Monday January 26, 2026 @04:33PM (#46771880)
Teams won by being bundled with the rest of the Microsoft stack and shoved down captive (corporate) users throats.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Tea... by tanganik on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @05:41AM (#46778192)
I was going to comment that teams doesn't have threads and slack may still win long term, but turns out teams added threads in the last couple of months(1). So yeah.

1: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoftteamsblog/...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Tea... by indoordin0saur on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @10:02AM (#46796217)
I'll vouch for this. I moved from Slack to Teams and Teams is clearly an inferior product. That said, I don't think SalesForce owning Slack is really a big improvement.
[ Parent | on HN ]