{"id":40727,"date":"2020-04-14T10:33:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T10:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=0578e08b212965305c5965bf9b4b473e"},"modified":"2020-04-14T10:33:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T10:33:53","slug":"slack-boss-disputes-microsoft-teams-adoption-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/slack-boss-disputes-microsoft-teams-adoption-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Slack boss disputes Microsoft Teams adoption figures"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Bobby Hellard<\/a><\/span>
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14 Apr, 2020<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Slack boss Stewart Butterfield has poured cold water over Microsoft’s figures for Teams adoption during the coronavirus pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The CEO was speaking to Market Watch<\/em><\/a> about his own company’s spike in users and the inevitable comparison to Microsoft Teams<\/a> seemed to get under his skin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Butterfield said the week starting March 9 was the “most productive” in his company’s history with a surge of new users turning into a “steep vertical” in two weeks. It took the platform four years to reach 10 million users, but from 10 March to 25 March, that number had grown by 2.5 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nThere are a number of cloud-based services that have seen a big spike in users following the spread of COVID-19<\/a>. Videoconferencing tools have become vital tools for people to connect with friends, family and work colleagues<\/a> and Slack is also benefiting from the lockdown. It has, however, also increased the scrutiny upon its rivalry with Microsoft, which seems to irk Butterfield.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“You probably sense the frustration in my voice,” he said on Market Watch. “Microsoft has made a huge push the past three years with a free service, but can you find a single Slack enterprise customer who has switched to Teams?”<\/p>\n

“If Microsoft is such a competitive threat to Slack as it says, we would not have grown in sales and $1 million customers. I mean, 44 million is an impressive number, but that is out of 200 million Office 365 customers. That’s about a 20% adoption rate.”<\/p>\n

Butterfield’s comments come just two weeks after he announced a Teams call integration on Slack<\/a>, that suggested the two would bury the hatchet, but the CEO and his company have a history of firing barbs at the enterprise giant. Butterfield previously called Microsoft’s behaviour “unsportsmanlike” and in a tweet, Slack referred to it as a “boomer”<\/a>. Despite recently going public, and also it’s rapid growth, Slack and Butterfield still see themselves as a startup taking on the corporate giant<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The smaller startup has an advantage against the large, established company because its focus is narrowed on doing one thing better,” Butterfield added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cloud Pro <\/em>has approached Microsoft for comment.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bobby Hellard<\/p>\n

14 Apr, 2020 <\/p>\n

Slack boss Stewart Butterfield has poured cold water over Microsoft’s figures for Teams adoption during the coronavirus pandemic.\u00a0
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