Microsoft Teams vs Slack
Recently Microsoft Teams overtakes Slack with 13 million daily users. Which one has a bright future? Why?
Microsoft Team will win because MS does not care about its profitability on its own. It is part of Office deals. People buy Office regardless and get Teams "for free". What's point to pay for Slack in addition? The only reason if Slack offers something unique. But how are they going to do it? MS will just copy any great idea they have. So I don't believe in a bright Slack future long term. It's like paying for a map app when you have free Google Maps.
Slack long term goal is to make emails deprecate, if they can achieve this then Microsoft might lose!
I am curious as to how they are going to release a feature that Microsoft cannot copy? Facebook did this to Snap and Microsoft is doing this to Slack.
All microsofties use Teams internally (not that we had a choice), that's a big chunk of users for free. Add all the Office packages, and there is a market victory.
Microsoft has so much leverage to put Teams in bigger enterprise deals and upsell some of the more advanced features, I honestly don’t see how slack has a chance to win this market long term
Microsoft will win with a crappier free version of a thing by displacing a competing product that has to stand on its own for revenue. After many revs of the product, it will be less annoying to use than it is today, and the world will be only slightly worse off.
Feel sorry for Slack but MS will triumph over them. The best option would be for them to be acquired by Google/MS
Too overpriced for acquisition
Google needs to buy Slack and offer it as a part of the Google Docs Enterprise suite.
Slack but the stock is completely overvalued.
Teams will win due to the bundling and freeness. Microsoft can bully Slack out of the market. Unfortunate considering how nonperformant and nonsatisfying the Electron wrapper UI is. Teams doesn’t realize that messaging platforms also need to feel good to use, and it definitely doesn’t when theres a 1s delay and freeze just to switch chats or scroll up.
The real questions are when will Microsoft stop making substandard 💩 products? How fat and bloated are the product teams at Microsoft? Is the goal to acquire every well known company and copy things to second rate quality and then label yourself and Satya as “visionary”? Who are you guys kidding.
Finally a sour Slackian speaks up! Ps: Not disagreeing with Teams being slower than Slack but yeah, Slack will get bullied out for the same reason. Teams is free with office and too many people already use office. So it's just a move to a much more feature rich messaging for free. How do you compete with that! Also Microsoft has much more capital to put into Teams and add feature after feature. I already see a bunch of very smart features in Teams which Slack isn't even close. With time, you realise to see the value in those and not having them hurts. So either Slack goes head to head with Microsoft on all features and decrease their price point to compete with something that's already free as a faster UI is not enough to keep it alive.
@slack trust me you are not the only one who wonders this. Even internally FTEs in other product groups wonder how Teams is so garbage compared to Slack considering they were both started from scratch. The answer lies in the culture. Engineers and PMs are rewarded on net-new. Refactoring shitty code or working on something slowly, deliberately, with intelligent design is non-promotable, not a bullet point, and not rewarded. Everyone strives to deliver something new as fast as possible so all you get is feature bloat, average user experience, and tons of legacy code. Eventually product groups mature enough will invest in perf and infrastructure rewrites like Office but usually that arrives entirely too late and with too little resources (think 1% of engineering dedicated to it.)
Slack is a glorified aim