The company reportedly is building Skype Teams, its first product to truly compete against hot group messaging apps
Story by Blair Hanley Frank, IDG News Service
Despite a varied portfolio of collaboration services, Microsoft is still struggling to field a strong competitor to enterprise group messaging apps like Slack and HipChat.
It has SharePoint, Skype for Business and Yammer, but none of them is really a direct competitor to the slickly designed, GIF-stuffed and bot-laden crop of modern messaging applications.
That may be about to change, according to a report from MSPoweruser on Tuesday.