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Slack seems like they already had everything they needed. You can do video calls natively in Slack. You can store and transfer files. They just didn’t put the pieces together; everything was kept as a minor complement to chat.

That said, I’m not sure they could have competed with Teams in MS corporate deployments under any circumstances. If a company is already using Outlook, Exchange, AD, O365, Teams plugs in very nicely. But, seems like that still leaves a pretty big market.



Plus it is zero marginal cost for those places where slack has expensive per user pricing.


How important is Office365 interactivity really? Calendar is nice but otherwise?




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