IDG Contributor Network: Microsoft Teams debuts with a sonic boom

I’m happy using Slack. I run the app in a few editorial roles and with some volunteers. I also use Convo and, in rare occasions, hop on a competing product that basically does the same thing. You chat, you share files, you go back to your normal routine.

After testing Microsoft Teams for a few days in the full production version (on a Surface tablet sent by Microsoft for that purpose), I’ve come to realize this is an app that has bigger ambitions than mere collaboration. Teams is partly an email augmentation app, partly a place to do real productivity work, partly a hub for videoconference and phone calls (with Skype built in nicely), and is quite possibly the most important app Microsoft has ever released in their decades long history.

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