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Back then: https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/04/source-microsoft-mulled-an...

Microsoft must be cursing their decision right now..

Over what? Teams is currently eating Slacks lunch.

I'm so tired of hearing this argument. The amount of revenue generated by customers who use only Microsoft Teams without an Office365 subscription is exactly $0 [1]. MS gives you exactly 2 options to get teams:

1. Free

2. Included as part of Office365.

Teams is currently eatings Slacks lunch, but the lunch was paid for by a corporate IT guy who switched to Office365 so he could lay off some IT admins and save some money compared to managing an on-premise Exchange server.

[1](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-team...)

I don't understand. What argument are you tired of hearing? Teams has more users than Slack. Doesn't matter how/why they got them.

Captive users don't really count.

But lots of Slack users are captive as well (e.g., when CIO licenses Slack for <$FORTUNE_500_CO> )

Slack is expensive, nobody randomly buys it for every employee

They totally do, especially at big companies. You need to show that you made a difference, and rolled out new communication platform for the whole company, not just for 5%.

Why not?

Really? What's the logic behind that?

We don't have _less_ staff due to migrating from Exchange Server to EXO -- quite the opposite (and the remainder of the M365 stack has significantly grown IT, as well).

Given that - Microsoft considered an $8B acquisition early 2016 - Salesforce does a $28B acquisition late 2020

That's only about 3x growth in almost 5 years. Don't get me wrong, this is a massive acquisition, but I still say "only" given the hypergrowth experienced by many adjacent tech companies.

So I think Microsoft may be quite happy they decided not to acquire Slack at such a high tag price nearly 5 years ago.

Or happy that Salesforce is spending $26bn and not Microsoft.

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