Microsoft Teams - the Competing Chat Application with Slack Has a Free Version

This article examines Microsoft Teams - the Competing Chat Application with Slack Has a Free Version. It presents the main facts, practical implications, and key points in a clearer, easier-to-follow format.

Understanding Microsoft Teams

Microsoft has just released a free version of Microsoft Teams - a teamwork application with chat, document sharing, video calling. - competitors with the famous Slack chat application. Microsoft Teams was first released in 11/2016 without a free version. Although there are 200,000 businesses using Microsoft Teams, the lack of a free version that many small businesses or freelancers cannot use this grouping application because it is only included in the Subscription package of Office 365.

The free version of Microsoft Teams supports up to 300 people with unlimited chat and search capabilities. Microsoft offers most of the features you need in Teams, such as calling audio groups, videos, integrating unlimited applications like Trello. Microsoft also allows visitor mode so anyone can join the server. Free of Microsoft Teams. Maximum storage capacity for groups is 10GB and for individuals (individual members) and 2GB.

Slack's free version is limited to 10,000 messages, integrating 10 other applications, storing 5GB, not for visitors and can only call 1-1 videos. So comparing it to Microsoft Teams is much more attractive, except that Slack doesn't limit the number of people to Teams, you only have 300 people.

Their core Office applications such as Word or Excel are still kept in the Office 365 Subscription package, so the free version of Microsoft Teams only has the web version of these applications on Office Online, though not as powerful as the desktop version but gradually improve to compete with Google's G Suite. It is useful to support working in new real-time, Microsoft is rebuilding web-based versions so that they run faster as well as updates to keep up with Fluent Design.

Microsoft Teams works on many platforms

The free version of Microsoft Teams currently has 40 languages, if you use too many limits, upgrade to Office 365 for $5 per person per month. Microsoft is also improving Teams with the ability to blur so when calling video, record the meeting to the cloud, translate messages for group members when using multiple languages.

This new free version of Microsoft Teams will put more pressure on Slack, the application, which is used by many small businesses, startups or small workgroups that do not want/cannot rely on Windows or Office.

Microsoft Teams features free version

• 10 GB of file storage for the group plus 2 GB of storage for each member.
• Incorporate Office Online applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.
• Integrate unlimited applications with more than 140 applications like Adobe, Evernote, Trello.
• Working with internal and external members/groups with guest mode, on Microsoft secure servers.