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Because it comes bundled with Office 365 which they pay for, so it's "free". According to Slack, that's a company unfairly exploiting their monopoly ( on business productivity tools) and i agree.

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If that was the case, more companies would use Google chat but I've yet to find a single one that does. I know multiple orgs that made a conscious decision to use teams though. There are lots of people who use and enjoy Microsoft products.

> Because it comes bundled with Office 365 which they pay for, so it's "free"

There is an official deb package for Ubuntu. I installed it without paying for Office 365. Never actually used it so far though. Will it ask me to pay when I try to?

I don't agree with the monopoly notion. But Teams still sucks so much. Slacks can be really expensive for a small or medium sized company though.

Slack is just IRC in a javascript client. If they bothered to offer more than that they might be a competitor, but they didn't so they're not.

I've never used Teams - what does it do that Slack is missing.

p.s. IMHO Slack integrations is the worst thing ever - usually abused to death and never remotely useful.

Consumes CPU and GPU which in turn let you get a new laptop in your company

You're clearly not familiar with the feature set of Slack.

Nor you the elaborate IRC bots of yester-year.

Could IRC bots do video conferencing and live screen sharing?

It’d be very cool if they could!

It's not. It actually used to be but they dropped the IRC back end around 2013 or 2014. Now it's just a noise generator with bots, emojis and forceful feature creep.

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