Are Slack and Teams REALLY competitors?

Sep 16, 2020 8 Comments

Despite seemingly similar features, companies frequently use both. Team’s growth has not slowed or taken Slack’s customers from what I see. It seems they both attempt to solve different use cases. I might be wrong.

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  • We use both but Teams sucks
    Sep 16, 2020 0
  • Disney / IT
    jonny_qw

    Go to company page Disney IT

    jonny_qw
    For now we use both but I don’t see the need for both . Eventually Slack will be obsolete
    Sep 16, 2020 0
  • Amazon
    Agent 007

    Go to company page Amazon

    Agent 007
    Teams has the full MS integration advantage but I agree that they are not direct competitors.

    Slack’s Pros: I love the **editable**, text-rich messaging composing feature. I wish Whatsapp and other apps would allow that especially with autocorrect changing my typos to weird things.

    Slack has a fantastic search functionality including threads that allows tracking your relevant messages, files, docs, attachments and ignore irrelevant ones; pinning relevant messages; smart use of emoji to communicate with a lot less text (:done: or eyes-looking, JIRA, on a code review request means not everyone else needs to read the thread inside) or you can do the opposite: start your message with a giant red emoji when you need to get peoples attention; great notification options (channel-specific).

    Cons: the UI is very crowded. Also, when you subscribe to many channels you’ll experience the same “bulk email/reply to all” problems. Particularly when people don’t know how to use the @here and @channel.
    Sep 20, 2020 0
  • Slack is more intuitive however teams seems to have an ecosystem integration.
    Looks like teams will outshine slack in the long run.
    Sep 16, 2020 0
  • Rakuten / Ops
    tooQ10

    Go to company page Rakuten Ops

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    Obligatory: YoE 20, TC 43k. Such is life for us non-SWE office monkeys!
    tooQ10
    I wish we could dump them both in the garbage and be free to work in peace without any annoying chat grabbing our attention all the time.
    Sep 16, 2020 0