Slacker or Team playa? Microsoft's Mr Business takes on messaging's corporate raider The early days of the internet provided ways to chat, bicker and "collaborate" with others in the world, and decades later we're still working on making that experience better. IRC (Internet Relay Chat) ruled the roost for many years but never really found a place in the enterprise world. It isn't complicated to use yet …
I am an enthusiastic O365 Business user, BUT there is so much overlap that it is difficult to understand which tool MS thinks should be used for which job...
SharePoint (has all sorts of collaboration features)
Yammer
Skype for Business
OneDrive for Business (as well as SharePoint as a repository - eh?)
Teams
Planner
Exchange Groups
there are probably more....
Are they going for an evolutionary approach - as in a land-grab and then survival of the fittest....?
I am a little confused....
although it seems to have less functionality than the Lotus Notes IM we used to use: you can't easily exchange partial screen grabs and, even less forgivable, it appears to get very confused about when people were last active. It's a bit of a shock to see your line manager was last online 150 days ago!
I wonder if those who succeed will be the ones coming at it from the other direction --- the sort of TeamViewer / VNC end, where you start by screen sharing and add filesharing / chat / voice ... ?
"The early days of the internet provided ways to chat, bicker and "collaborate" with others in the world, and decades later we're still working on making that experience better."
Or identical, and yet more expensive. That very much seems to be the pattern, tbh, since the only notable difference between Slack and a decent IRC client from 1998 is the price tag...
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