Microsoft banned employees from using Slack, AWS, and Google Docs that were about to suffer the same fate

The board of directors of Microsoft recently issued a regulation prohibiting the use of Slack Free versions of Slack Free for more than 100,000 employees in the company.

If you don't know, Slack is a cloud-based online teamwork management tool and service created by Stewart Butterfield. Can imagine Slack is a 'chat room' for all employees in your company. The biggest advantage of Slack is the multi-platform (computer, Android, iOS) so everyone in your company can chat with each other regardless of what device they use.

According to the report, leaders in Redmond have built a list of banned applications and services as well as limited internal use. In this list, there are even Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Docs (not recommended) - 2 platforms are competing directly with Microsoft products.

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Slack online group management service

This ban on Slack is said to be rooted in Microsoft executives' concerns about the security aspects of Slack Free and Slack Plus. A document describing the situation that issued the ban (internal circulation) has been disclosed with reference to the following information:

'Slack Free, Slack Standard and Slack Plus versions do not provide the necessary controls to protect Microsoft's intellectual property (IP) rights. Microsoft employees who are currently using the above solutions should begin to migrate chat history and company-related files to Microsoft Teams now. Microsoft Teams provides similar features as well as integrated Office 365 applications, call functions and online meetings. Take the time to learn more about the additional features Teams can support for your team. For employees who are using the Slack Enterprise Grid, this version fully complies with the company's security requirements, however, management still encourages you to use our Microsoft Teams instead of one. Competitive software comes from competitors'.

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Microsoft Teams

From the above notice, it can be understood that Microsoft employees are still allowed to use the Slack Enterprise Grid, but the company does not encourage doing so and they may be subject to strict responsibility in case of an incident. After all, Microsoft still wants to direct its employees to use Microsoft Teams 100% instead of the tools of competitors like today.

In related information, both the AWS and Google Docs platforms have also been 'targeted' by Microsoft executives. The staff using the two platforms mentioned above will have to give reason enough persuasion. Besides, GitHub - Microsoft's own platform is not recommended for use with information that has 'high security level, specifications or security code'.

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In addition, Microsoft has completely banned the use of internal Grammarly tools - this is a text checking and grammar checking application that monitors all very popular keystrokes in the environment. enterprise. The content of the notice is as follows:

'Employees should not use Grammarly Office browser extensions and add-ons on the company's intranet, because they can access content protected by internal copyright management. Information content (IRM) in email and documents'.

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Microsoft ready for a new competitive campaign?

The list of banned Microsoft services is very likely to make a big and extensive change to security-related issues. However, the ban on immediate use will make it difficult for Microsoft employees because they still need to use the above competitive services to complement their own products, as well as access to the broad market. bigger. Thus, in order to have the right to continue to access and use rival services such as AWS or Google Docs, Microsoft employees must be able to transfer the explanation plan convincingly to the company's management.

In the past few years, Microsoft and Slack have created a compelling parallel race in the enterprise-level communication application market. After a long period of breathlessness and losing a lot of market share to its rivals, Microsoft has come up with effective strategies to close the gap with its competitors, and perhaps the above prohibition rules are for guns. signaled that the Redmond giant is ready for a new, stronger competition.