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Microsoft Teams vs Slack

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Microsoft Teams vs Slack

Microsoft Teams vs Slack compared honestly: Slack's chat experience and integrations against Teams' meetings, telephony, Microsoft 365 governance, and price.

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Is Teams free with Microsoft 365?

For most of the world, yes — Teams is included in Microsoft 365 Business and Enterprise plans. Since 2023 in the EU/EEA and Switzerland, and since 2024 for new enterprise subscriptions globally, Microsoft also sells 'no…

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Can Teams and Slack work together?

Loosely. There is no native federation between them. Options are a third-party bridge (Mio and similar) that syncs channels and DMs, Slack's Microsoft 365 apps (calendar, OneDrive, Outlook) inside Slack, and Teams meeti…

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Why do engineering teams prefer Slack?

Faster, less cluttered chat; threads that behave; a huge catalogue of developer-tool integrations (GitHub, PagerDuty, Jira, CI systems) that post richly and act from chat; Workflow Builder; and a culture of open channel…

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Chat experience

Microsoft Teams: Improved with the new client; still heavier · Slack: Best in class; fast, clean, threads work

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Meetings

Microsoft Teams: Full featured; webinars, town halls, Rooms, Premium · Slack: Huddles for quick calls; Zoom/Teams for real meetings

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Telephony

Microsoft Teams: Teams Phone, a real PBX replacement · Slack: None (integrations)

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Files

Microsoft Teams: SharePoint/OneDrive native, co-authoring · Slack: Attachments; integrations to Drive/OneDrive/Box

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