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Your Slack DMs won’t survive the jump to Teams — Microsoft’s tool skips them

BySean Endicottpublished17 January 26

AppsMicrosoft is rolling out a native Slack-to-Teams migration tool this month, but it only supports channel data, leaving DMs and workflows in the cold.

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AWS outages takes down most of the Internet — even Fortnite and Wordle

ByBen Wilsonpublished20 October 25

SoftwareAmazon Web Services (AWS) hosts several of the web's most popular platforms, as "significant error rates" takes them offline.

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Teams now has threads in channels — a feature Slack users have had for years

BySean Endicottpublished9 July 25

AppsMicrosoft Teams is finally adding threaded replies in channels, a feature Slack and others have had for years. The feature is now in public preview.

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Salesforce's Marc Benioff claims Microsoft did "horrible things" to Slack

ByKevin Okemwapublished8 May 25

MicrosoftCEO Marc Benioff claims Microsoft did horrible things to Slack before his company, Salesforce, acquired the platform in 2020 for approximately $27 billion.

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Slack's outage reminds us how fragile remote work can be in 2025

ByKevin Okemwapublished26 February 25

OUTAGESlack has acknowledged the massive outage and is working on a fix to restore impacted services, including sending messages, workflows, threads, and other API-related features.

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Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce Inc., speaks during a press conference at the 2024 Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024.

Salesforce CEO claims Microsoft has done a 'tremendous disservice' to the AI industry: "Copilot is just the new Microsoft Clippy. It doesn't work or deliver value."

ByKevin Okemwapublished16 October 24

CLIPPY < COPILOT?Salesforce CEO claims Microsoft's Copilot AI won't be around for the long haul because it's disappointing and doesn't deliver value.

CLIPPY < COPILOT?

Slack finally gets its act together with native Windows on Arm app — beta available now

ByZac Bowdenpublished13 June 24

Finally!Slack is releasing an Arm64 native version of its Windows client, which means the app will now be faster and be more energy efficient on Windows on Arm devices.