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I find the "open platform" segment from the company that is pushing chat into being a closed platform which controls your data unless you pay extra for it comical and/or tone deaf.

It seems by "Open Platform" they mean shoving all your data onto their chat platform, basically an open API. That definitely is not an open platform in my book, as you can't federate, run your own, etc.

I see some of the upsides of both Slack and Gitter, but having used both I still find IRC or a Signal group much easier and more convenient overall. Perhaps its the familiarity, or that I find both to be yet another tab to have open/app to install & maintain, but I just can't call myself a fan.

I'm confused by this. I see slack responding to Microsoft "Competition", but the only recent MS announcement I can see is flow, which appears to be an IFTTT competitor, which can hook into slack events?

Microsoft announced or is announcing Teams today, their Slack competitor. The YouTube video was linked on /new, but the URL on Microsoft's own website was 404ing still at the time.

Edit: Here, still "unlisted": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKU-FMzZFF0

Dear Microsoft,