Looks like the Teams and Slack battle is heating up! Great write up of the current situation here:
Slack up 5.36% today…who you backing?
- Slack
- Teams
- There’s room for both!
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Room for both is a misleading statement. Yahoo search still exists in Europe so technically there’s room for it even if nobody uses it
You’re like a broken record. Find a new thread. 
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I agree MS Teams will eat Slack for breakfast eventually.
Personally, I like Slack.
Professionally, I’ve seen companies who have spent years being resistant to trying Slack ending up with Teams installed due to it being bundled in with their Microsoft contracts.
It reminds me of when Netscape was the better browser, but then Microsoft bundled IE in with Windows and won.
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I definitely prefer Slack. And all companies I have worked for so far used Slack (mostly young software companies). Can’t see this becoming a winner takes all market. There is definitely space for both services and I don’t like MS teams at all.
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$4.5bn of shares have come out of their lock-up expiration period today and the share price has dropped 2.5%. Is this a good time to buy or is this stock still over-valued?
Over-valued af
I’d wait for the next earnings report. They’re in a tricky place at the moment, any recommendations either side would just be punts.
I’m long Slack, but we’re yet to see how much if the market share Teams is going to gobble up and how good Slack is going to be at converting free users to paid.
Interesting piece on the bullish take for Slack:
https://honest.cash/v2/honest_investor/slacks-stock-analysis-and-investment-thesis-6436
Anyone tempted by Slack at these rates it does seem to have bottomed out?! (For now!)
IMHO - MS Teams is going to annihilate the competition in this space. Upcoming project cortex plans to provide business value through knowledge management functionality. Plus when you consider we’ve all been brought up using MS Office based apps, the integrations with Teams provide added value and a natural path to migrate towards.
I remember when people used to tell me this about Microsoft’s phone OS, it’s so integrated with work the others are finished!
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My view on this is a mix of others…
The big boys:
Teams - clearly a monopoly play, being pushed by MS with their overall solution. It’s got good features but it doesn’t play nicely (feedback from multiple companies and sys admins and personal experience)
Google - Google Hangouts Chat is going to be pushed as a flagship competitor as soon as google have the balls to shut down standard Hangouts. Chat is a good product and comes with Google enterprise. So it should also be a tool of choice for numerous companies. Google’s video conferencing meet plugin with telephone dial in also makes this a powerful package
The competitor:
Slack - is simply excellent, so many good plugins and so many companies are using it, especially in the tech startup space. But it does lack some more comprehensive functionality such as dial in video conferencing
But we’ve seen salesforce destroy the competition, so maybe slack can do it to eventually. Share price graph right now is hilarious. But it started at a way too high point 
Just MHO
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Working within the tech consulting space, I’m seeing a lot of companies move towards MS Teams.
Slack will remain the #1 preference for IT dev teams though.
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Yep all corporates or billion dollar revenues I work with navigate to teams… Microsoft is a strong share!
Stewart Butterfield on CNBCs Closing Bell tonight, hopefully he brings good news!
Edit: whatever he did seems to have been positive as the after Hours is up around 1.5%
Also edit, might be from this though: Redirect Notice
If ever there was a day for positive sentiment in Slack it would be today.
Teams down most of the day with Microsoft scratching heads for a fix…
Slack doesn’t budge! (FML)
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They blocked our use of Skype for business and required is to move over to Microsoft teams. We only use the meetings part of Teams for calls due to its integration with Office365. We heavily use Slack. I rather dislike the way Teams causes my fans to blast due to high CPU usage during meetings, other calling apps aren’t as bad in my Mac. Slack calls are so seamless, except the lack of calendar integration and pulling in external people that Teams can do.
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Forced to use teams for a month now. Absolutely awful piece of software. Literally the worst quality of video calls I have ever seen. The UI is horrible and looks like 1998.
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Slack is looking better today.
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