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Microsoft’s Teams is almost an excellent Slack-killer, and it’s now live for O365

March 15, 2017

After being in beta since November, Microsoft Teams is now available to anyone with a suitable Office 365 subscription.

Teams is a group messaging application organized around chatrooms. Slack has become the darling of media and software development types, with its modern, Web-based take on what is actually an old-fashioned mode of computerized communication. Slack is text-heavy and line-oriented, much like the IRC that it mimics. Slack arguably brought IRC into the 21st century and added such niceties as persistent message storage so that you can see what happened before you even joined a particular channel.

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