Microsoft Teams Usage Jumps To 145 Million Daily Active Users 33
Earlier this week, The Verge reported that Microsoft now has 145 million people using its Microsoft Teams communications app, an increase of 26 percent over last year's reported 115 million daily active users. From the report: To put the 145 million figure in perspective, at the beginning of the pandemic, Microsoft had around 32 million daily active users of Microsoft Teams. That jumped to 75 million in a matter of weeks, and these numbers have more than doubled since even the early days of the pandemic. It's an impressive amount of growth, just as Microsoft has been aggressively pushing businesses to move to the cloud and adopt Teams over the past year.
As always, it's difficult to compare to rival services. Google and Zoom don't reveal daily active users and opt for a more vague daily active participants. This means a single user could be counted multiple times if they participate in different meetings during a day. Zoom revealed it had 300 million daily active participants last year, and Google said last year it had 100 million daily active participants. Slack revealed it had 12.5 million concurrent users during the beginning of the pandemic last year, but the company has shied away from daily active user counts ever since.
As always, it's difficult to compare to rival services. Google and Zoom don't reveal daily active users and opt for a more vague daily active participants. This means a single user could be counted multiple times if they participate in different meetings during a day. Zoom revealed it had 300 million daily active participants last year, and Google said last year it had 100 million daily active participants. Slack revealed it had 12.5 million concurrent users during the beginning of the pandemic last year, but the company has shied away from daily active user counts ever since.
How many one person organizations? (Score:2)
Microsoft Teams Usage Jumps To 145 Million Daily Active Users
And how many of those are one person organizations? Joining/logging in is the easiest way to make the spammy invitations go away.
Re:How many one person organizations? (Score:4, Informative)
Daily Active Users means people who sign in every day. That metric is used to specifically ignore people who sign up because of invites.
Re: How many one person organizations? (Score:1)
That is completely made up. Do you feel so insecure that you need to make shit up just to rag on a corporation that doesn't even know you exist?
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Daily Active Users means people who sign in every day. That metric is used to specifically ignore people who sign up because of invites.
They may count running the application (which autostarts every time I start windows) as a daily active user, even if your only interaction is minimizing the windows.
Signing in is not required, at least in the default installation, since the thing remembers the password.
Impressive Growth (Score:1)
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+1
Super Efficient! (Score:1)
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Well duh (Score:5, Interesting)
When you tell everyone you're getting rid of Skype and they'll have to move to Teams, it's not difficult to have an increase in usage.
The real metric would have been to run them in parallel and see which one would win out. I'm guessing Skype was too popular and didn't provide enough telemetry so Microsoft had to force people onto Teams.
That, or the programmers wanted to show off how difficult it is to download a file and have no say in where it goes or ability to rename it on the fly.
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Teams is seeing a surge in use because it's bundled with O365 and companies want to save a buck. It's godawful compared to Slack or even Zoom. I have to be part of several teams (different orgs) and with Teams you simply can't have multiple accounts logged in, so you have to log in to each a few times a day or have one account on your phone and another on the laptop or maybe use the web app for one... it's completely unusable in this kind of scenario, not to mention its text entry is slow as hell and the te
Does this metric require actual use? (Score:2)
My org uses Cisco Webex. Several orgs that we work with use Microsoft Teams. Therefore I have Microsoft Teams loaded and I'm signed-in, even if we don't use it for ourselves. Same deal with Zoom, occasionally I have to use it for work purposes, so the client is loaded.
I wonder how many users like me are being tabulated as Teams users, when in reality it's only there because it's too much of a PITA to disable between times I need to use it.
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Do they have a web app? (Score:2)
Slack completely sucks due to them actively screwing with their web app on mobile. They say they don't support their web app on mobile, which is bad enough, but that doesn't mean they need to break the Web by selectively disabling their web site.
And, no, desktop mode doesn't help... Much.
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Do note that when I have tried to use the Teams web app on mobile, it insists that you must download and install Edge. This is despite the web app working fine on most any browser I tried on a PC.
I figure Microsoft is doing this just because they can.
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I'm sure this counts each instance running (Score:1)
and not each user - most of whom are going to be forced to be logged in by their employer for various reasons. Some on multiple devices.
My most hated current M$ "feature"? The barrage of Black Mirror style analytics emails.
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Yep.
I get a weekly email titled "Weekly Breakdown", and I always wonder- how do they know I'm having a breakdown?
Not hard to do... (Score:2)
...when you keep installing it without asking every few months and make it difficult for users to remove because when they uninstall Microsoft Teams directly, the less obvious Teams machine-wide installer ensures it's right back after a reboot, and even if you uninstall both, a few months later MS sneaks it right back on in an update.
Multiple accounts (Score:1)
I currently need to use three separate full blown O365 MS Teams accounts to communicate with everybody. Somehow the use case where you are daily communicating with people in different "tenants" was never worked out (guest mode does not cut it). Consequently I have three separate MS Teams instances running logged into each account. It is likely that I am counted three times.
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Agree. That's the most tedious thing. The common use case: I join a meeting hosted by one of my customers. I do not "switch organisations" so that my colleagues can still chat to me. They share some document. I cannot access it since "switching organizations" will cause the call to end.
Skype for Business/Lync had some problems as well, but at least the cross-organization communcation just worked.
I don't understand why MS gets away with it (Score:2)
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No, Teams is awful.
Just because you think there's nothing else better than it doesn't change that.
And anyhow that's not true. I think it /might/ be fair to say that there's no single product which does all the crap Teams does as well as Teams does it, but firstly that's setting the bar pretty low, and secondly why do we have to use just one app?
Teams is typical Microsoft garbage. It has a bunch of features, many of which your company (and the company I work for) would benefit from getting rid of. But you
Teams is okay, but not bad enough (Score:2)
My company uses Teams. It's okay, and it works. Actually it works pretty well, so no complaints here.
But that's not enough for my company, who decided they could save money if they built their own "teams" app. After all, we have lots of programmers, how hard could it be?
I've seen the pre-release version and it's awful.
There are essentially no features at all, you can't drag and drop anything, you can't apply ANY formatting to anything (no bold, italics, color, etc), you can't edit a post, only delete it, an
Hey, Microsoft! (Score:3)
Can you reduce the size of the people bar on the bottom, and the bars on the top, on desktops? I know some anal retetentive in Microsoft command and control wants a unified "experience" across all devices, but we really don't need phone touch screen images proportional to desktop-sized monitors, as if the computer user had fingers the size of circus balloons.
Money For Your Memory (Score:1)
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Mod parent up.
Teams gets about 15MPG