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As Microsoft unbundles Teams, it might not have the impact on Slack you think
When Microsoft announced this morning it was unbundling Teams from Office 365, it seemed like good news for Slack, but not necessarily.
Salesforce, for its part, didn’t have any comment on the unbundling announcement, but Microsoft’s bundling strategy seems to have worked quite well, with the company reporting it has over 320 million users worldwide. “While Microsoft is unbundling Teams simply to avoid an antitrust mess, it’s good for Salesforce/Slack for sure, but in many ways it may be a pyrrhic victory,” Alan Pelz-Sharpe, founder and principal analyst at Deep Analysis told TechCrunch. Redmond can now sell standalone Teams licenses into non-Microsoft shops much more easily, all while building goodwill with regulators, and still sticking it to Slack in the stand-alone market battle.
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