In November 2016, Microsoft introduced a business collaboration service: Teams . The service still aims to take a slack market share, the most popular tool in this sector of communication .

Teams were only available to pay for the subscription to the Office 365 platform which surely prevented it from becoming popular among the smaller companies despite the fact that 39 to be integrated with the other office services of the suite. The precedent put a considerable disadvantage compared to the free plans offered by the competition, but that ended.

The Redmonds decided to launch a free version of Teams to deal with Slack. . This version will support up to 300 people with no limit of posts or searches. On the other hand, audio and video calls will also be available to all members of the group, however, it will not be possible to record conversations or scramble the back-end shot of the video. There will also be no option to translate live messages for members who speak a different language.

Teams will have no limits in number with third-party application integrations. An interesting novelty is that it will be possible to authorize access to guest accounts without paying any additional fees.

Regarding the storage space, the group will have a total of 10GB to store records while each member will have other 2GB for their personal use . If we make a comparison with Slack, it offers 5GB of storage for the entire group, there are no audio conversations or guest accounts. In addition, searching between conversations only indexes the last 10,000 messages sent.

In this way, Microsoft Teams becomes a serious alternative to Slack that could react very soon with new features to continue to maintain its very large number of users. Those in Redmond have indicated that they are always working to improve the web clients of their cloud services, in addition to adapting them gradually to Fluent Design, their latest design language.

According to data provided by Microsoft, Teams currently supports communication of 200,000 companies worldwide and is available in 40 different languages ​​. The price of $ 5 per user is still intact for those who wish to have access to all the features of the service.