It has focused on video conferencing as a way to allay Zoom‘s meteoric growth during the pandemic. Of course, Slack is not Microsoft Teams only competitor. Microsoft has also received heat for aggressively pushing Teams to all users, even non-365 subscribers. Slack has filed an EU antitrust complaint over this, arguing that it is a misuse of platform power. It natively integrates with Word, PowerPoint and Microsoft 365, but Slack has spent years building a library of app plugins, which surpassed Teams in quantity until recently.įor businesses already subscribed to Microsoft 365 Business, Teams is a free add-on, instead of a separate bill.
Microsoft Teams key advantage over competitors is its deep integration with Office 365.
