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I do not think that MS launches this as a Slack competitor, I think that this is just a headline to attract visitors.
what I see is that MS integrates more and more technology that is successful and people are used to into their office365, and companies can run their 'social media internet' intern.
also, MS owns already skype, so ... what competitor?
however, I am not sure that this is the right forum for this thread
Jim Allchin, Microsoft’s “Windows operating-system chief,” has been trying to convince the U.S.
government that open source software (or at least the General Public License) is a threat to
the U.S. and to intellectual activity; one of his arguments is that open source software is a
threat to innovation. In its recent court battles, Microsoft also used innovation as
justification for its business practices (which have since been determined to be illegal).
If MicroSoft where to go open source, their maybe too big a risk of everyone seeing all of the code that "came from someone else" outside of Microsoft. So they want to keep it a secret by shutting open source down. twisted logic.
Jim Allchin, Microsoft’s “Windows operating-system chief,” has been trying to convince the U.S.
government that open source software (or at least the General Public License) is a threat to
the U.S. and to intellectual activity; one of his arguments is that open source software is a
threat to innovation. In its recent court battles, Microsoft also used innovation as
justification for its business practices (which have since been determined to be illegal).
If MicroSoft where to go open source, their maybe too big a risk of everyone seeing all of the code that "came from someone else" outside of Microsoft. So they want to keep it a secret by shutting open source down. twisted logic.
actually MS does a lot of open source these days https://github.com/microsoft
and even more than that.
I do not know from when in the past your statement is, but I think it must be from Ballmer, or even before Ballmer time.
time to live in 2016, soon 2017
actually MS does a lot of open source these days https://github.com/microsoft
and even more than that.
I do not know from when in the past your statement is, but I think it must be from Ballmer, or even before Ballmer time.
time to live in 2016, soon 2017
Here's my absolutely useless contribution to this thread:
I do not think that MS launches this as a Slack competitor, I think that this is just a headline to attract visitors.
what I see is that MS integrates more and more technology that is successful and people are used to into their office365, and companies can run their 'social media internet' intern.
also, MS owns already skype, so ... what competitor?
however, I am not sure that this is the right forum for this thread
MS Teams integrates nicely with Office365 (and subsequently any desktop/mobile apps thereof). The UX is similar to Slack so it's OK to use and there's a low learning effort if you're already used to Slack.
It's a logical step for MS to make for Office365 although it partially deprecates Skype For Business. If I was MS I'd be looking to turn Skype back in to a "consumer" product and look to sell it off now that they have a load of the "business" use cases of Skype covered or integrated in to other products.
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