Microsoft Teams overtakes Slack with 13M daily users (opens in new tab)

(theverge.com)

43 pointsaristotle26y ago12 comments

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Would be useful to note how many users of Teams do so, where their employer pays specifically for it. My guess is that most users of Teams are effectively corporate ‘Microsoft shops’ who effectively get Teams for free with their Office365 bundle.

Another useful statistic to ascertain: how many startups or small businesses use Slack compared to in large corporates?

joelx6y ago

I tried using Slack in my business and found it to be not as effective as Basecamp. Basecamp has very strong project management and communication features EXCEPT it is hard to order by priority if you have multiple users and multiple projects.

Also - Slack is WAY more expensive than Basecamp. I would pay $1,000+ per month for Slack vs the $100 something I am paying each month for Basecamp.

ViViDboarder6y ago

Yea. I have no problem (well, few problems) with the Slack product, but it’s way more expensive than its competitors.

pathartl6y ago

Teams is such a step up from Lync/Skype For Business. The screen sharing and conference features are so much better and work well. I just wish my organization used it for more than IMing each other and actually messages in threads in teams.

blueboo6y ago

The key difference is that an active user on Microsoft Teams is someone with an outlook mailbox, and an active user on Slack is someone who uses Slack

SahAssar6y ago

Are you claiming that microsoft counts "outlook daily active users" as "teams daily active users"? Cause the article specifies "daily active users", not "signed up" or anything like that.

futhey6y ago

They’re rebranding Skype for business as teams meetings, and pretty soon anyone who uses Office 365 for video calls for meetings will end up being counted as a teams user (even if they don’t sign in to teams or ever look at chat).

This isn’t too far off, although it’s new enough I doubt it has a massive impact on the 13m number.

lewisj4896y ago

That's not how it works.

thaniri6y ago

That's not how it works to a reasonable person, but marketers can count however best suits them.

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finales6y ago

As a former MSFT employee (on Azure), Teams daily active users are counted even when someone on Outlook hosts a meeting, which is automatically converted into a Teams meeting link. Therefore, unless an enterprise is still sticking with Skype, Teams users will automatically get trickled in from Outlook.

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adrian_mrd6y ago

Another useful statistic to ascertain: how many startups or small businesses use Slack compared to in large corporates?

joelx6y ago

Also - Slack is WAY more expensive than Basecamp. I would pay $1,000+ per month for Slack vs the $100 something I am paying each month for Basecamp.

ViViDboarder6y ago

Yea. I have no problem (well, few problems) with the Slack product, but it’s way more expensive than its competitors.

pathartl6y ago

blueboo6y ago

The key difference is that an active user on Microsoft Teams is someone with an outlook mailbox, and an active user on Slack is someone who uses Slack

SahAssar6y ago

Are you claiming that microsoft counts "outlook daily active users" as "teams daily active users"? Cause the article specifies "daily active users", not "signed up" or anything like that.

futhey6y ago

This isn’t too far off, although it’s new enough I doubt it has a massive impact on the 13m number.

lewisj4896y ago

That's not how it works.

thaniri6y ago

That's not how it works to a reasonable person, but marketers can count however best suits them.

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finales6y ago

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