Yes, you get Teams for free as part of Office 365.

Sadly no one has run an analysis to see how much cost there is in reduced communication because of how bad Teams is.

If it were measurable I bet the cost of teams actually far out weighs the cost of Slack.

I’m leaving my current role in Wednesday and I’m so happy to be leaving Teams behind, I hate it.

I ask if companies are using Teams now when interviewing and it’s a mark in the “cons” column if they are.

I completely and utterly think it's MS abusing their monopoly position (again). Slack, Zoom, etc, all cost actual hard money.

Microsoft released Teams for effectively for free, paid for by existing (extortionate) subscriptions (that are never in the public domain). Now, despite the product being almost _universally_ hated by its users, it's number one.

Urgh.

I think so, yes. I could also imagine that business people: 1. see effort in integrating Slack/Matrix/.. . into their landscape 2. think MS is a big name and thus will build a proper product 3. see no big difference in terms of functionality.

From my personal experience people are moving from nothing to Teams.

Welcome to Germany.