Microsoft challenges Slack by offering a free version of Team Chat

Microsoft has released a free version of its company chat service, Microsoft Teams, which strengthens the direct competition with the Slack chat service.

Microsoft launched Microsoft Teams for the first time in November 2016. Until now, Microsoft was only serving its customers to pay Office 365 and its productivity enhancement package, while Slack offered options. Free and excellent since its launch in 2014.

Slack is not the only competitor of Microsoft teams: Hangouts Chat is part of the G Suite package provided by Google last year, less than six months after the unveiling of Microsoft teams. Facebook also provides a chat application for the job.

Microsoft announced in March that the number of users of the Microsoft team has reached 200,000 companies, less than half of Slack's customer base, which reported in May that the number of Users reached 500,000 businesses.

The free version of Teams can support up to 300 people with unlimited chat messages, message search features and other third-party integrations. Microsoft has made sure to incorporate most of the features that you are waiting with certain restrictions that encourage people to sign up. In Office 365.

The free version of Microsoft Teams will be available in 40 different languages, and Microsoft will later promote the free version of Microsoft's smart feature teams, such as embedded message translation for members of the team. team who speak different languages. Blurred background on video calls to prevent The chaotic rooms and other things seemed to be seen by others.

Perhaps the most important thing is that the free version of the teams will allow users to access some of the most popular Office applications – Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote – that integrate directly with the teams. . Customers also have the ability to store files from SharePoint and OneDrive.