General Consultant Discussion

Looks like Microsoft is trying to wipe out Slack https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software

Perhaps, but for now, this will be largely an enterprise play for subscribers of Office 365. There is no way to add outside contributors to Team and the use case for Team, Yammer, Groups is not super clear. Of the three I'd bet on Yammer going away and Team merging into Groups. Where I think this starts to take on Slack is on price. Slack charges $8 per user per month (Month to month) which is the same amount an O365 E1 account costs yet with E1 you also get email, Office, OneNote, etc. I think Slack's future is as an acquisition. Mostly likely by Google.

So you bring up Groups, which I forgot about. What's the difference between groups and Teams? Microsoft really has to clean up their product overlap/description act. You have Skype for Business, Skype, Groups, Yammer, Teams and Exchange....

Teams is built on Groups. If you create a Team you will see that Groups also adds in the underlying resources (files, OneNote). From my limited understanding of the ""under the hood"" technology, I believe Groups is primarily an understandable way for end users to create sharing of key Microsoft functionality (files, notes, calendar)