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Microsoft Teams Passes 44 Million Daily Active Users, Thanks in Part To Coronavirus (venturebeat.com) 44

Posted by msmash from the for-what-it-is-worth dept.
Microsoft Teams, which launched worldwide in March 2017, passed 32 million daily active users (DAUs) this month. From a report: A week later, thanks in part to COVID-19, usage had spiked to 44 million DAUs. That's up from 20 million daily active users in November, a 60-110% jump in just four months. Microsoft used the product's three-year anniversary to share the new figures and announce new Teams features targeting "underserved professionals, including firstline and health care workers." Teams is the company's Office 365 chat-based collaboration tool that competes with Slack (12 million DAUs as of October), Facebook's Workplace (3 million paid users as of October), and Google's Hangouts Chat (no user number shared). It's also Microsoft's fastest-growing business app ever. But the company has been criticized for how it calculates its DAU figure, so today it shared its methodology.
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  • Reminds me of a joke (Score:5, Funny)

    by UnknowingFool ( 672806 ) on Thursday March 19, 2020 @09:58AM (#59848744)
    Coronavirus forces Walmarts everywhere to open a third register.

  • Because let's face it, it hasn't become popular on merit. It's unstable and the interface is terrible, and there are a number of better alternatives. Sadly they will fall by the wayside as once again Microsoft abuses its monopoly with impunity.

    • And a month or so ago MS decided to auto-install it through a forced update and set to auto-run on start-up with no easy way to prevent it.

      • And /.-ers wonder why some people like Macs (typing on a 2011 Mac Book Pro running 10.13.6 ... I guess it would run 10.15, too).

    • Yay monopoly!! I'm totally certain Microsoft won't abuse their control of their latest acquisition, NPM, to force install stuff nobody wants...

    • Often deployment beats out any feature of its competitors.
      For a business who needs to evaluate every software. Office had already been threw its evaluation phase, so teams is just the easiest install. As the organization had already trusted Microsoft with its data.

    • Actually Teams is *not* bundled with Office. The default Office deployment installs Skype for Business and Teams is an optional addon. The real reason Teams is becomming popular is because Skype for Business has been depreciated and companies are now faced with: 1) use something that's part of the Microsoft license and can integrate into office and sharepoint, or 2) Use Slack an external vendor they've never dealt with.

      It's unstable and the interface is terrible

      Oh my god this! I don't know who thought that in 2020 multitasking was no longer importan

    • Are you a troll? How is the interface terrible? You want to chat with someone? Just chat. Outlook meetings are integrated, so you have your calendar integrated. Video calls? The push of a button with your team. It even has a whiteboard that everyone can use at the same time, record and share. I guess you don't use it do you?

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by skids ( 119237 )

        I just had to start using this due to COVID-19. My screen is mostly a desert of gray wasted space with tiny bubbles of three word comments distributed in a manner that is inconvenient to read. More space is wasted by putting a timestamp and username in the bubble above every comment, rather than beside it. To get to the useful part of the conversation that isn't littered with badges and smileys, I have to scroll up 100% of the time.

        I know its more than a chat client, but the chat client UI is worse than

      • Are you a troll? How is the interface terrible? You want to chat with someone? Just chat.

        Chat? Teams isn't a chat client. It's a groupware client which thanks to its interface is actually not able to multitask. Want to chat while a file is open from the onedrive repository behind your team? Fuck you you can't, that file will be closed and complete reopened every time you dare to want to look at your calendar, or the chat window, or the video window. Want to decouple the video and use teams across monitors? Don't be silly we're in an iPad world, people don't need multiple monitors. As for integr

  • I literally don't know anyone that uses Teams. Yet slashdot keeps publishing these articles every few weeks telling us how popular it is. I think it's time for slashdot to tell what their motivation for posting non-news is.
    • I work in clinical healthcare and the hospital I work at uses it.

    • I work for Mircosoft and they are paying me to say it works great. It works great.
      Oh look, my shift just ended. It sucks.

    • I literally don't know anyone that uses Teams. Yet slashdot keeps publishing these articles every few weeks telling us how popular it is.
      I think it's time for slashdot to tell what their motivation for posting non-news is.

      This reminds me of the famous (infamous) quote attributed to Pauline Kael on Nixon's 1972 election: "I can't see how he won. I don't know anyone that voted for him"

      I work for a fairly large official agency in my area, and we use it heavily. It's been quite stable, and the IT guys especially are in it all day.

    • Sorry, there are too many organizations that have drunk the MS Kool-Aid. I've now had to use this piece of crap on two projects because... well because. I will only say that there is much better collaboration/meeting software out there.

    • We have a couple thousand users wordlwide (Asia and the Americas).

    • Do you think that an app that Microsoft has been pushing hard and auto-installing on machines is somehow not gaining traction? So many organisations already use Office 365, so it is really easy to slide into using Teams.

      I always questioned the usage numbers that Microsoft reports since Teams fires up on lots of machines where the person isn't using it, but this pandemic has definitely increased its usage. I know that people in our company are using it more and have starting install it on their phones as wel

      • I always questioned the usage numbers that Microsoft reports since Teams fires up on lots of machines where the person isn't using it, but this pandemic has definitely increased its usage.
        I think it is a virus!

    • I literally don't know anyone that uses Teams.

      I see you don't work. err. at all. Literally every Microsoft shop in the world (the majority of the companies) are moving to Teams (though some are moving to Slack) as MS forces that piece of shit down everyone's through while depreciating Skype for Business.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by mtm_king ( 99722 )
      Where I work we have been using Teams for about a year, switched from SkB. We have about 6 offices with 1 in India 500 hundred partners. Teams is how we communicate. I would guess Teams has had about 99% uptime. IMO UI beats SkB. I am in meetings and on calls for a couple of hours ever day, and messaging/chatting off and on all day. I am pretty critical of tools I use, but I have know complaints with Teams.

    • Well looking a comments I think Most Slashdot readers are using Desktop PC's that are at least 10-12 years old, which they got off the side of the street.
      Because whenever something new comes out they will be quick to bash it as the worst thing ever.

    • We do (world-wide company). You want to chat with someone? Just search for a name and chat. Outlook meetings are integrated, so you have your calendar integrated. Video calls? The push of a button with your team. It even has a whiteboard that everyone can use at the same time, record and share. You can share your screen as well. Pretty darn useful.
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  • When you say Hey Cortona, donâ(TM)t F up and say hey Corona .. that could be bad.

  • 44 Million (Score:4, Funny)

    by PPH ( 736903 ) on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:38AM (#59848956)

    I'd say that qualifies as a pandemic.

  • And school kids all over the world at home have problems with access to Office365.
    Now it really is a moronic way to do it.

  • We've been using it at work since about 2 weeks, I prefer calling for immediate things and email for information that should be available later on.

    My kids schools also use teams. My wife's school uses Skype with guest mode.

    I've been looking at easy to use similar solutions, and talky.io should be quite good, usable in Firefox on Android as well as Linux, so probably anywhere. On the desktop one can do desktop sharing easily, really cool. Should be great for teaching remotely, as far as that can be usabl

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  • enough said ...

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