Slack and Teams are two of the leaders in business collaboration tools. Microsoft is now claiming that their Teams app has just exceeded Slack based on their statistics, Teams are growing faster than Slack in terms of daily users. Users’ reviews are saying that the Teams app has more advantages and features. Microsoft wants the Teams app to become more powerful.

Key Takeaways:

1. Teams app has more than 13M users while Slack has only 10M, with a difference of over 3M, within three months, from November 2018 to January 2019.

2. Teams app is earning lots of positive feedback from its users.

3. Teams app has helped Microsoft email as it relates to its proper usage.

Quote: “What we started to do is figure out what’s missing, what is the glue that could follow them around,” Spataro said. The messages show up in the Teams apps for Android and iOS, or on desktop. Because they’re so persistent, they’re more likely to grab people’s attention as they’re rapidly switching among devices and work tasks. (Novet, 2019)

Link to article: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/11/microsoft-teams-passes-slack-in-daily-users-rajesh-jha-explains-why.html