Looking to ditch Slack? Try Microsoft Teams!
September 17, 2019
Looking to ditch Slack? Try Microsoft Teams!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Teams
Teams is being used to facilitate persistent chat, video calls, and audio calls among team members across multiple sites. It helps us communicate in real time, enabling teamwork as if we were sitting at the same desk. The audio and video has been quite good, despite our terrible network, and has really helped close the communication gap among sites.
- Persistent chat - Teams automatically saves a history of your chat discussions so that you can search and find useful information again in the future.
- Team based chat - Teams delineates between person-to-person chat and team-based chat so that you can easily select the right audience for your communication.
- Video Conferencing - Teams has built-in video conferencing, which can help facilitate a conversation when typing becomes too cumbersome.
- Notifications - Teams notifications are not granular enough. As a result, I've turned off most of my notifications on my mobile devices as otherwise my phone was constantly buzzing.
- UI organization - I find it difficult to sometimes find new chats. Rather than bubbling recent activity to the top, chats and teams stay in alphabetical order.
- Default UI size - too small! I had to zoom in, and that was not an easy setting to find.
- Adoption of Teams has enabled us to move away from Slack and centralize our communications on Office 365.
- Having a functional chat / video conference solution has really accelerated adoption of a work from home culture, where team members can engage easily from home.
Slack was the innovating force in this space before Teams, so by default, it's the yardstick by which other tools are measured. Slack has had more time to perfect its UI organization and notification systems so that it makes for a great user experience. I expect over time, Microsoft Teams will do the same, but as of right now, those two aspects are not as polished.
Do you think Microsoft Teams delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Microsoft Teams's feature set?
Yes
Did Microsoft Teams live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Microsoft Teams go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy Microsoft Teams again?
Yes