Corporate VP for Microsoft 365 Jeff Teper believes that Microsoft Teams could become more widely used than the company’s Windows operating system.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Venture Beat<\/strong><\/a>, Teper said that he envisions the platform being available across various operating systems, giving it scope to be bigger than Windows.<\/p>\n “We want people to build Teams-based applications that run on iOS, Android, the web, the Mac, as well as Windows,” said Teper.<\/p>\n “So by that definition Teams will ultimately be an even more ubiquitous platform over time.”<\/p>\n Teper believes the target market of potential Teams users is also larger than the target market of people who Microsoft Office software like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m very bullish on us getting more Office 365 users to use Teams. But also, first-line workers adopting Teams in health care, in retail, airlines, and so forth,\u201d Teper said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt actually gives us a much bigger addressable market than, say, the people who author Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents all day.”<\/p>\n For this reason, he said, Microsoft expects that Teams user growth will be in the hundreds of millions.<\/p>\n Microsoft Teams already boasts around 200 million daily meeting participants – which is fewer than the 300 million who use Zoom, but more than the 100 million who use Google Meets.<\/p>\n However, unlike these other platforms, Microsoft Teams offers more than just voice calling – a fact that arguably serves as Microsoft Teams’ biggest selling point.<\/p>\n Instead, it offers tools that span a variety of functionalities – meaning it has various competitors.<\/p>\n “For sure, in those categories, there are big competitors who have good products, and we\u2019re absolutely striving to be the best choice in each category,” said Teper.<\/p>\n Microsoft Teams has come under fire from Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, who told The Verge<\/strong><\/a> that Microsoft “is perhaps unhealthily preoccupied with killing us, and Teams is the vehicle to do that.”<\/p>\n \u201cMicrosoft benefits from the narrative that Teams is very competitive with Slack,” said Butterfield.<\/p>\n “Even though the reality is it\u2019s principally a voice and video calling service.\u201d<\/p>\n Butterfield believes that Microsoft is particularly threatened by Slack because it could bring down the entire Office solution, whereas Zoom only realistically threatens Microsoft’s video and voice calling solutions.<\/p>\n “In a different universe where Slack is incredibly successful over the next two years and 98% of knowledge workers use Slack, it does matter to Microsoft because the relative importance of email is hugely diminished,\u201d said Butterfield.<\/p>\n \u201cIf email becomes less important, then that whole $40 billion-a-year collaboration productivity business unit is threatened.”<\/p>\n Corporate VP for Microsoft 365 Jeff Teper believes that Microsoft Teams could become more widely used than the company’s Windows operating system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":343977,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64847,44440,39614,36922,13651],"class_list":["post-353629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-jeff-teper","tag-microsoft-365","tag-microsoft-teams","tag-slack","tag-zoom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353629"}],"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\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353647,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353629\/revisions\/353647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Big growth expected<\/h3>\n
Microsoft “preoccupied with killing” Slack<\/h3>\n
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