Microsoft puts Slack on internal list of ‘prohibited and discouraged’ software

It is pretty annoying in a big company if every team uses totally different software to get their work done. It makes it a lot harder to build tools that help make your coworkers more productive. So it seems reasonable for companies to make decisions like “we use Box here, not Dropbox” and encourage employees to all go the same way.

Kind of like if a company ran 1000 MySQL instances and then a new engineer wanted to build a new service using Postgres because they were most familiar with it. Adding more different tools to the stack is technical debt.

So they are hiding behind a "Slack does not offer enough security to protect our IP", which I don't completely by. But I'm surprised in the Nadalla Era that Microsoft would be taking this approach.

If the people in your company are using a competitors product, aren't you better off letting them do that to be most productive while at the same time learning why they are using those products in order to make your product better?

Skype, skype for business, teams, yammer, outlook, kaizala, sharepoint and various integrations between them.

Banning slack makes sense, they shouldn't get to use it if they're going to force their mess on everyone else and pretend like it's just as good and easy to use.

Totally click bait article with no source or trusted information.

I can confirm that this is not true at all and one of the big team in Microsoft completely use slack even today and will be using going forward without any change.

This is a bad headline. Slack Enterprise is not prohibited.