{"id":1363,"date":"2016-11-02T23:50:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T23:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/microsoft-teams-feels-like-deja-vu-all-over-again.html"},"modified":"2016-11-02T23:50:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T23:50:24","slug":"microsoft-teams-feels-like-deja-vu-all-over-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/microsoft-teams-feels-like-deja-vu-all-over-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Teams feels like d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu all over again"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Microsoft introduced Microsoft Teams<\/a> today to much fanfare and hoopla \u2014 as only Microsoft can seem to do these days. But when you take a close look at today\u2019s announcement, what have you really got here \u2014 a 10-year-old idea on how to communicate and collaborate in the enterprise with a distinctly Microsoft twist.<\/p>\n

As I wrote previously about Slack<\/a> and more recently Workplace by Facebook<\/a>, Microsoft Teams\u00a0is nothing new. About 10 years ago, a new kind of enterprise software emerged. Dubbed Enterprise 2.0, it was supposed to transform the way we work and \u201ckill email\u201d by giving us a space to collaborate and share work. It didn\u2019t succeed \u2014 or at least\u00a0wasn\u2019t as transformative as once believed, and many of the early companies were absorbed (including\u00a0Microsoft spending $1.2 billion to buy\u00a0Yammer<\/a>).<\/p>\n

You may also recall that Microsoft spent a cool\u00a0$8.5 billion to buy Skype<\/a>\u00a0in 2011. After spending almost\u00a0$10 billion for two companies focused on communications and collaboration, five years later, we have a new product that appears to be influenced by these acquisitions. It\u2019s interesting that Microsoft left Yammer on\u00a0the bench\u00a0for this one, and seems to have built Teams on Skype and the Office 365 platform.<\/p>\n

Regardless, this isn\u2019t revolutionary technology, it\u2019s just technology that Microsoft has begun to pay attention to\u2026 again. Who knows why those 10 billion dollars in investments haven\u2019t amounted to much in the last five years, but with Slack making a lot of noise, and Microsoft riding a cloud wave, perhaps it felt it was time to revisit the idea.<\/p>\n

Alan Pelz-Sharpe, an analyst at Digital Clarity Group who has been watching the collaboration space for many years, sees Teams\u00a0as a kind of portal play, trying to get you to do all of your work in one place. That means that if\u00a0Microsoft can build\u00a0a space\u00a0to communicate with your co-workers, while\u00a0using all Microsoft tools, then we\u00a0can return to the glory days of all Microsoft, all the time.<\/p>\n

The fact is that there appears to be some slick\u00a0integration here among Microsoft tools (if you can believe the shiny promo videos<\/a>), but the key thing here is that it\u2019s built primarily for Microsoft. Surely there will be connectors\u00a0out to other enterprise tools, because, in this day and age, there have to be, but Slack has an advantage that Facebook, Microsoft and even Cisco lack.<\/p>\n

Slack was built from the ground up as a neutral cloud company, meaning\u00a0it has come up with a way to connect to various\u00a0enterprise applications, and it has no ties to any other platform or business. It\u2019s communications\/collaboration Switzerland. These big companies are beholden to their own platforms, even if they profess to play nicely with others. Slack doesn\u2019t have to care about all those external factors because it does one thing well.<\/p>\n

You might think we had progressed a great deal in 10 years \u2014 and we probably have \u2014 but the fact is that communications and collaboration remains mostly an unsolved problem. When you see a market opportunity, you\u00a0try to use your resources to take advantage of it, and in this case we have Microsoft trying yet again to grab\u00a0a piece of the communications and collaborations business in an attempt to do what it has always done: keep us using Microsoft tools.<\/p>\n

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