Team's live editing functionality of excel files is really really valuable for team collaboration. Slack closing the gap on O365 integration is important for enterprise sales.
This has not been my experience with MS Teams. If I respond to a message on my phone, and then return to my laptop, Teams has disconnected and I have to restart the app on my laptop in order to get updated messages. Scrolling back even 5 minutes in Teams' message history incurs multi-second latency sometimes, so reviewing the context of a conversation you're in is very painful. Threading is handled very poorly in teams and makes teams feel much more like a decades old forum than a chat application.
I do agree this is a good move for Slack, but only because organizations are adopting teams due to its bundling with Office 365, something most companies are already using. Slack has no other way to survive because the people in the org making these decisions aren't concerned with the quality of the tools they are choosing, just the idea they are getting something for free.
Next time, I'll stick with Slack.
>Team's live editing functionality of excel files
Teams is a Client, SharePoint is the server. When you use Teams to view a file list or open an excel file, all its doing is streaming the SharePoint web interface, like an iframe. Teams, as far as the file side goes, is a new form of browser chrome (the toolbars not Google Chrome, albiet Teams is also based on electron aka Chrome.) for SharePoint, instead of the Modern SharePoint Web interface.
TBH the feature I miss the most, is reacting to a certain message with emojis! It added liveliness to the whole chat.
Lolwut? Have you used Teams? The product is bad ripoff Slack. So many issues, crashes all the time.