laurentb

It's only a personal opinion, but I find that Teams has a much better product than Slack and a much better vision of integrations than slack does.

They do, and in some cases or exceptions they bypass whatever internal rule they imposed on themselves just like your examples. However, whether it's Amazon or another, it doesn't change the fact that businesses are in general averse to do business with a company that has shown in the past that it will enter a new market if it sees money in it at the cost of its partner relationship.

You don't have to look that deep to see the example. Walmart categorically refuses to buy anything that runs on Amazon simply because amazon competes with walmart directly in retail. having said that, i'm sure there are exceptions and some examples where they do have some stuff they use hosted on aws but that's the exception not the norm.

You're mistaken if you think Microsoft doesn't compete directly with its partners. If anything, they are very sneaky how they do it, every ISV knows and yet still collaborates with them.

SharePoint improvements have been built and incorporated out of the box because/thanks to ISV's, Flow (now PowerAutomate) is a direct inspiration and competition from one of MS historical partners in the SharePoint space called Nintex.

They absolutely compete, they absolutely steal ideas and they do so by getting their partners to willingly show them what they are working on. For any ISV worth their salt in the MS world, they know this and hopefully they have a plan for when that ultimately happens.

The one thing that Microsoft keeps focusing on is IT related stuff, whether it's software or hardware, it's still in the IT realm 90% of the time. On the other hand as you pointed out yourself, Amazon does everything and doesn't think twice to enter a new market if it thinks it can aggressively compete and gain a significant market share.

Similarly, both Amazon and Google do not have an engrained culture of working with partners the same way that Microsoft does, they do work with some don't get me wrong, but it's nowhere near what Microsoft does and how it behaves. It's no surprise that the Co-Sell program at Microsoft is so successful, it's pushed by the Higher ups and all the way down to the field sales people live and breathe it. Google is trying to do something similar but you can tell (if you work or have worked with both sides) that the google side doesn't care as much as Microsoft.

very interesting numbers!

I always wondered how much money Microsoft generates out of their proper dev tools like Visual studio, would be interested in seeing those...

or perhaps someone can point me to some market research in this space?

having done business with all Spanish/Italian/French businesses, I can guarantee you that nothing comes close to Italians as far as poor english

I'd say veeam mostly (not affiliated with them in anyway shape or form) then druva/code42 and others (many others)

carbonite -> backup solutions, similar to Veeam. OpenText -> Enterprise Document Management system (with all the governance stuff big co's want and then some)

frankly, Microsoft deserves to be in there at this point, so that would end up being FANAMA for Facebook,Apple,Netflix,Amazon,Microsoft,Alphabet and it's easier to pronounce to boot

ok and what does all of this looks like when you're not comparing it against a race drone? Parent comment makes a good point I think, in that the Mavic line has never been geared towards "race drones" so comparing/judging those models based on a certain category that they qualify themselves out of is kind of moot.

I'm in the market for a drone at the moment (eyeing the mavic air over the mini to be honest) for holiday type shots, all this racing stuff is pointless as far as I'm concerned. I can't figure out based on your comment whether the wind will screw a wide shot or not, it might not make it through a circle, but i'll never get this drone through this sort of activity anyway.....

In this case, then surely showing a calculator straight on the page allowing people to see what APR they would get based on their payment/sales configuration would make the whole process more transparent and easier to understand by people who might not be savvy enough to understand the nuances then?

a simpler version of that workaround can be built with a powershell script (and hell, with a little bit of fiddling around, you can even use PowerApps as a front UI) in less than 2 days if not one morning.

replyed to the wrong comment, see parent comment for my reply :)

WhireWheel, Onetrust, and a slew of others (https://iapp.org/resources/privacy-industry-index-pii-vendor...) offer a DSAR module/platform to handle this.

they definitely won't be held liable per their contract nor handle the verification for you, but they do provide a system (a ticketing systems really) with a set of workflows that help put an identity verification system in place. It's nothing magic, but it definitely helps the privacy lawyers and DPOs who will end up bothering you with verifying all the data and providing it if needed.

Interestingly, Marc Petit came to Autodesk after the Softimage acquisition and back in the days was a big figure in the Softimage community. Softimage then died down completely after the Autodesk acquisition in 2015 (being the third wheel of their animation package with Maya and 3DS Max)

Periscope has merged with Sisense: https://www.periscopedata.com/blog/periscope-data-sisense-be...

i don't work for notion, but all notion pages fyi are markdown underneath and export is supported out of the box.

erm, commenting on the ROI bit, but in Journalism AFAIK (or at least writing articles and so on) there are concepts of how a title/ sub-heading / article should be written to give the maximum amount of info based on its "part" (if i make myself clear in that a title/sub-heading/article is a part of an article).

in that sense, writing with this in mind makes the ROI pretty obvious, since it's being written already in the first place.

this is pretty cool! one thing on the image drawing one is that there are "industry-wide" common practices when using a placeholder/drawing one to represent an image as a square/rectangle crossed from each angle (if I explain myself correctly). this dates back to the print design days, but would be a shape that's a lot easier to draw than the pseudo picture that's common in OS UI's. Yotako, which has been linked somewhere in the thread by tyingq (which reminds me of the Palm Pilot days) uses a similar approach as well. It makes it easier to draw and faster too

an interesting, yet somewhat unrelated thing that came through this article was the market cap's graph of some big names like Microsoft, Amazon,Oracle, VMware and Red Hat. (https://a16zpeter.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/peterlevine1.p...)

it mentions in 2014, their Market cap was: - Microsoft: ~$300B - Amazon: ~$160B - Oracle: $160B - VMware: $40B - Red Hat: $10B

I'm not sure how true this was back in 2014, but the current market cap 4 years later for these companies is as follows:

- Microsoft: ~$833B (177% increase) - Amazon: ~$803B (400%) - Oracle: $181B (13%) - VMware: $60B (50%) - Red Hat: $30B (200%)

it's incredible to see in the same period of time just how massive both Microsoft and Amazon have been able to perform (market wise at least) and specifically the hockey stick market cap of Amazon in that time frame...

I'm doing something similar with an Office 365 business essentials subscription (~$5/month) my main email address only has the most important stuff while everything else I setup a shared mailbox for. then every shared mailboxes forwards anything received to an office 365 group called Catchall which i have available on the main address and i just need to switch mailboxes if I want to reply from it (you should be able to do this through mail.app afaik).

this allows me tighter control on a case by case basis and I get all the benefits of Office365 business.

here's a vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ObE4_nMCjE

to be clear, Teams comes with one of the lowest O365 packages at a meagre $5/user/month (if i'm not mistaken on the price)... that's a big difference against Slack.

sounds a lot like the google wave type of extensions they initially demoed!

having been at a small company that swore about manager tools all day long and actively recommended its staff to look into it to grasp some of the concepts and their approaches to things, it is equally as dreadful as any other resource out there. there are more than one way to do things and there are more than one different type of people that you'll have to manage. the reality is that it is a tough job that requires a lot of self awareness and a deep understanding of the risk of management drawing power hunger to really start to grasp how to leverage those tools to be effective.

can anyone comment on support for purchase orders which a lot of companies use to recognise or initiate a purchase? it seems to still be the only thing that needs to be manual in that process....

they don't however, need to provide a warrant for their own apartment. that's effectively what slack is implementing, it does not mean that they can go through your personal slack setups. just fyi, any application that is provided by your employer is theirs and most likely in your contract is that everything you say or write is their own property.

if your mobile is paid for by your employer, they have access to anything on that as well, this include texts, mms, and call logs.

If you have willpower to tone down your usage, you don't need something like focus apps. And if you need to avoid things unhealthy for yourself, then a mere barrier will not cut it.

and killing a process in the task manager is easy enough for anyone who games enough to see this as a problem...

I can edit my hosts file to point facebook.com to 127.0.0.1 in general, but it's even more trivial to get rid of it when i do want to check facebook (not that i crave it that much anyway)....

this works well in the real world and even more so when parents do it to teach restraints to children, but anyone who has been in this position of wanting to reduce/prevent/limit their usage of a specific software (like focus apps) is usually (and i mean in most cases) savvy enough with their use of a computer to get rid of it in the first instance... I think most would agree there, and so it only leaves the ones that do not know how to do it in the first place.

I can believe there are a few for whom this is valuable and useful. but not enough of them that i can warrant a paid for service.