{"id":185626,"date":"2016-11-02T17:43:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T15:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=185626"},"modified":"2016-11-02T17:46:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T15:46:16","slug":"microsoft-teams-a-chat-based-workspace-to-compete-with-slack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/185626-microsoft-teams-a-chat-based-workspace-to-compete-with-slack.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Teams &#8211; a chat-based workspace to compete with Slack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has\u00a0officially unveiled its competitor to Slack, a messaging app for teams.<\/p>\n<p>Called Microsoft Teams, the company bills the software as a chat-based workspace that brings the experience of an open office space into the digital world.<\/p>\n<p>Chats are threaded and persistent,\u00a0with support for emojis, stickers, and GIFs.<\/p>\n<p>Teams brings together chat, meetings, notes, a planner, and the power of business intelligence, said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Microsoft Teams] is designed to facilitate real-time conversations and collaboration while maintaining that institutional knowledge of a team,&#8221; said Nadella.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Teams is available as a customer preview from today in 181 countries, localised into 18 languages.<\/p>\n<p>It will be included in all Office 365 Business and Enterprise suites, with general availability scheduled for the first quarter of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The app will be served from data centres across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nKU-FMzZFF0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/185612-microsoft-flow-now-available-to-everyone.html\">Microsoft Flow now available to everyone<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has unveiled its Slack competitor, dubbed &#8220;Teams&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":130312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,123,39614,20431,36922],"class_list":["post-185626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-teams","tag-satya-nadella","tag-slack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185632,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185626\/revisions\/185632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}