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https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/22/slack-has-filed-an-antitrust-complaint-against-microsoft-teams-in-the-eu/
Not sure exactly what evidence I can show you other then myself being a sysadmin for companies who used the M365 suite and refused to use anything other then teams for communication. Anytime we brought up an alternative (even Zoom) it was always shot down by finance who said "we already have Teams". Same thing for Slack.
Yeah we have the whole 0365 package at work. It’s just not fit for purpose.
Teams also worries me in that it’s incompatible with Safari’s security settings. I don’t fully understand what that means it’s doing but MS’s fix is to turn them off. Great.
How is it not fit for purpose? Legitimate question - as an end user, I've used Teams, Slack and Google's Hangouts/Chat/Business Chat (whatever the fuck they call it now) and they're all functionally the same. Chat, video calls, audio calls, etc - they all work fine. They've all had extension ability and webhooks and everything.
How is it not fit for purpose? You'll wish you never asked! 🤣
I guess it's worth bearing in mind that, AFAIK, organisations' O365 suites are in part bespoke so things that are bad at one company might be just to do with its specific implementation. But this is part of what makes O365 bad: if you need to find out how to get something to work, the on-line help is often useless, because it won't apply to your own company's set up. E.g., menus & buttons might be different.
OneDrive is probably the worst offender. Here are problems that I've noticed, or heard about:
I've used several other cloud services which don't suffer from any of these problems.
SharePoint:
Teams
Perhaps not-fit-for-purpose is an exaggeration; but these features are, at least, inconvenient.
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