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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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1720 points JustSkyfall | 5 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.707s | source
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thiagoperes ◴[18 Sep 25 02:18 UTC] No.45284309[source]▶
We’ve been using Microsoft Teams as well as the entire office suite, and we’ve been positively surprised. There is an occasional clunky UI you come across, but the feature set is far superior to Slack or Zoom, and the ecosystem integration is nice.
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1. jayknight ◴[18 Sep 25 02:29 UTC] No.45284429[source]▶
Teams chat better than slack? Are we using the same Teams? Because it doesn't come close in my opinion, and the opinion of basically everyone I work with.
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2. mdorazio ◴[18 Sep 25 02:39 UTC] No.45284541[source]▶
Chat? No. But the strength of Teams is that it lets you do everything else you want in an integrated communications app - voice, video calls, calendars, viewing (and editing) documents, etc. At a reasonable price that Microsoft isn't going to crank to the moon.
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3. tuesdaynight ◴[18 Sep 25 02:52 UTC] No.45284658[source]▶
I had the same reaction. I believe that it's the first time that I see someone that prefers Teams. There's no comparison for me. I've been using Slack for the last year after using Teams for years and the difference is staggering knowing how big Microsoft is. Using Teams was a daily battle.
4. s0sa ◴[18 Sep 25 02:53 UTC] No.45284663[source]▶
So instead of doing one thing well, it does a bunch of things poorly?
5. margalabargala ◴[18 Sep 25 03:22 UTC] No.45284896[source]▶
What are your experienced differences?

Frankly most of these tools have been at feature parity since before Covid.