Microsoft Teams
More info
- Creator
- Microsoft
- Released
- Owner
- Microsoft
- Type
- Collaboration platform
- Website
- microsoft.com/teams
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Microsoft's collaboration platform — chat, video, calls, file sharing, integrated with the entire 365 stack. Launched in 2017 as a response to Slack, now dominates the enterprise segment.
Model: organisations → teams → channels. Built on top of SharePoint for files, Exchange for meetings, Azure AD for identity. ~320 million monthly users (2024). The bundling strategy (free with a 365 subscription) crushed Slack's growth — the EU Commission forced an unbundling in 2024.
Hated about as much as it's used. Performance on the Electron client has been a recurring complaint; newer native shells (Teams 2.0) have improved it noticeably.