The emergence of corporate chat from Microsoft caused a mixed reaction creators Slack

On November 2, in New York , an official presentation of the new Microsoft product - corporate messenger took place. Microsoft Teams is designed for users of MS Office products - Word, Excel and Powerpoint. The corporation provided the service with integration with the Skype application for organizing audio and video chats.

In Teams there is a single search among chats, user data and files, as well as bots to perform tasks. The company paid attention to security issues as well - the Teams service encrypts user information and allows the use of multi-factor authentication.
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As noted by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, one of the main tasks of the corporation is then, "so that 85 million Office 365 users are provided with everything they need." The company also intends to increase the number of Office users in the near future by offering them new features and applications.

The official launch of Microsoft Teams is scheduled for early 2017.

Microsoft presented messenger versions for Windows 10 and iPhone OS. Mikhail Chernomordikov, Director of Strategic Technologies at Microsoft in Russia, clarified that Teams web version will be available soon. In addition, it will be available for Android OS, as well as for Desktop-platforms.

From November 2, Microsoft Teams has been released as Preview in 18 languages ​​(including Russian) for Office 365 corporate users from 181 countries.



The service has another “curious feature” - it is similar to the well-known corporate Slack messenger, which, after its launch in 2013, became widespread in the world.



One of the main differences between Microsoft Teams and Slack is the ability to comment on messages right below them, opening a discussion thread. Now in Slack, you can only quote messages.

Before the announcement of the new service, the creators of the corporate Slack messenger gave a few "tips" to Microsoft.

According to the creators of Slack, Microsoft should adopt a "completely different approach to support and partnership with customers." They recommended to improve the product upon user requests, and not to lock in the same ecosystem, integrating with other applications.

Slack intends to remain on the market regardless of how the Microsoft service will develop, and also congratulated the company on joining the “revolution”.

Slack management not only published its blog statement, but also posted it in The New York Times. The message took a whole lane:


In May 2016, a TechCrunch source reported that Microsoft was planning to buy Slack for $ 8 billion, but eventually changed its mind.

According to them, the vice president of applications and services for Microsoft, Qi Lu, insisted on buying Slack, but Bill Gates urged him to promote Skype’s service and turn him into a strong competitor to Slack. Satya Nadella supported this decision.