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If they fuck up Slack, everyone will move to MS Teams.

That is, unless some start-up dreams up some kind of revolutionary paradigm shift in how people communicate online.

Maybe something in the AR space ~10 years from now.

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Remember that MS Teams forced themselves into the market by pushing it onto their existing customers, not because it's a worthy competitor. Now Slack can play that same game too.

Shouldn't that have given Salesforce some leverage in the deal? Slack needed them more than Salesforce needed Slack

Slack was doing just fine before the deal. They were thriving and their most recent earnings report would've been stellar: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201201006167/en/Sla...

What about Mac users though? I can’t imagine using a Microsoft product in any capacity that isn’t entirely separate from Microsoft - meaning GitHub and VSCode.

Teams feels entirely too tied to MSFT. The UI seems unbearable.

I use Teams on my Linux workstation every day, entirely through the web site running in Chrome (organization-specific IT peculiarities prevent the "native" app from working on our Linux). It works just as well as Slack ever has for me. There are plenty of Mac users in my org too, but I don't know if they use an app or the web site.

Teams videochat works flawlessly on my linux worklaptop as well (native though), I get disconnected from video calls a lot using Slack... If Teams fixes their chatroom issue I'd definitely be willing to make the switch entirely.

Discord is already better than Slack and Teams anyway, they've just made the (potentially smart, maybe not) decision to only compete for gamers/social applications rather than business/teams.

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