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Surveys in Slack: Madrona leads $7M round in Polly, a Seattle startup that builds polling software

With millions of employees at thousands of companies now getting work done with collaboration software such as Slack and Microsoft… Read More

Slack adds app building tools as productivity arms race with Microsoft Teams continues

Slack wants to make it easier to build apps and integrations on its platform, hoping to attract third-party developers as… Read More

Microsoft Healthcare reveals more of its strategy with new cloud and AI products for hospitals

Microsoft is expanding its healthcare offerings with three new tools that bring its cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities into hospitals… Read More

Microsoft debuts new low-cost laptops and ‘Classroom Pen’ for schools

Microsoft is doubling down on the education market, a competitive arena for the world’s largest tech giants, with a series… Read More

New features for Microsoft Teams chat app further company’s push to woo retail and service workers

Microsoft’s play to become the tech provider of choice for so-called “first-line workers” — people in fields like retail, hospitality and… Read More

Microsoft Teams usage passes Slack in new survey; IT pros expect its presence to double by 2020

Microsoft Teams is now being used by more organizations than its rival Slack, according to a new survey that shows… Read More

Microsoft’s Slack competitor Teams now used by 329k organizations, as tech giant adds new tools

Microsoft wants to spread the use of its Slack rival Teams, so it is introducing tools for specialized groups like… Read More

TLDR: Microsoft vs. Slack, high-tech Nike store, Elon Musk wants to help Flint

Today’s featured stories Microsoft unveils free version of Teams productivity tool, upping the ante against rival Slack ‘Not like Amazon… Read More

Microsoft unveils free version of Teams productivity tool, upping the ante against rival Slack

Microsoft today debuted a free version of Microsoft Teams, expanding the reach of the company’s Slack competitor beyond the Office… Read More

Geek of the Week: A Teams player at Microsoft, Raanah Amjadi finds a product and a purpose

Raanah Amjadi moved to Seattle more than four years ago to start her career at Microsoft and during that time… Read More

Microsoft Teams ratchets up Slack challenge, claims 200k organizations as customers one year after launch

Microsoft Teams is now being used by 200,000 organizations in 181 markets around the world, up four-fold since the tech… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft expands Teams into government clouds; Unified Logic taps Dell EMC exec as CRO; T-Mobile COO joins board

Microsoft Teams is expanding into a new market: Government employees. The company hired Avanade technical evangelist David Rosenthal for the initiative, Rosenthal… Read More

Microsoft releases biggest update yet for Teams, adding deeper app integration to productivity tool

Microsoft is out with a series of new features for its chat and productivity program Teams, all with a common… Read More

Walmart joins ‘Workplace by Facebook,’ boosting social giant’s collaboration tools

Facebook just notched a big win for its collaboration tool Workplace by Facebook, landing the nation’s largest employer, Walmart. Typically, these… Read More

Microsoft Teams to replace Skype for Business as main meeting tool for Office 365 customers

Microsoft is going all in on its chat and productivity tool, Teams. As its annual customer event Ignite kicks off… Read More

Microsoft says 125k organizations now use Teams, as collaboration tool adds new Guest Access feature

As Microsoft continues to navigate the competitive landscape of collaboration tools, its Teams program is now being used by 125,000… Read More

Microsoft says hello to Trello with new Teams tie-in as it battles Slack and others in packed chat market

The popular project management program Trello is now integrated into Microsoft Teams, the Redmond tech giant’s new enterprise messaging platform within… Read More

Slack adds new menu feature as it takes on tech titans in competitive collaboration market

Slack has added a new feature that lets people insert dropdown menus in the middle of conversations. These menus are designed… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Inside the Slack Wars, as Microsoft and Google get serious about enterprise chat

If you’re not familiar with Slack, odds are you don’t work at a startup. This messaging platform has been taking… Read More

Hands on with Microsoft Teams: All-in-one collaboration tool takes cues from relatives and rivals

Even though Microsoft just released its Teams enterprise collaboration tool today, there’s a familiar look and feel to a lot of the features,… Read More

Q&A: Microsoft Office chief Kirk Koenigsbauer on his ‘aha’ moment with Teams, the new culture under Satya Nadella, and the competition

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft commemorated the launch of its Teams “chat-based workspace” for Office 365 in 181 markets around the… Read More

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