Slack hooks up with Microsoft Teams and Zoom
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/02/slack_teams_and_zoom_integration/
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Integrating with Teams is true to form for Slack because despite the upstart offering native voice and video chats it’s already integrated with plenty of other video calling tools. And does so happily while suggesting it is the future of work and all rivals are off the pace.
On the other hand, Microsoft often measures Teams’ adoption rate against Slack’s user numbers. And – surprise! – the numbers Microsoft puts up always make it look like Slack is a straggler.
Slack doesn’t see things that way. Its [1]page for the new Teams plugin talks up the convenience of its new offer. “Gone are the days of fumbling for meeting links—join Teams meetings directly from calendar reminders in Slack, using the Outlook or Google Calendar apps,” interested parties are told.
Slack also today issued an [2]app to integrate Zoom . The new code lets users start Zoom Meetings and make Zoom Phone calls from any Slack channel, private group, or direct message. A new command, /zoom , does the trick.
COMMENT: With video and conferencing tools becoming the new normal, many of us will spend our days jumping between a few recently-installed pieces of software. By integrating with many such tools, Slack could become very handy indeed. Perhaps even as handy as [3]Pidgin , the widely-used application that allowed users to log on to multiple chat services at once.
And for what it’s worth, a little light web searching will quickly yield links for Slack-to-Pidgin integration tools. ®
[1] https://slack.com/app-pages/teams-calls
[2] https://elreg.slack.com/apps/A5GE9BMQC-zoom
[3] https://www.pidgin.im/
Re: Slacking off
Coo!
Pretty much the 3 wise apes: Slack is excellent for messaging, simple hooking into APIs and channelling, but rubbish for voice or video. Teams has good audio but the video is a bit off and getting APIs to integrate into channels is a bloody nightmare. Zoom is great for video, but that's about it.
I am staying with Webex and Slack - can't stand Zoom and Teams was great until they started making it hard to integrate Git or JIRA notifications.
Slack is just great, I didnt choose Teams for my organisation as it fell over badly twice in the week I was making my decision. Of course more people will be using Teams as it comes included with Office 365.
Zoom is just a million times better than everything else, they really nailed it (need to sort security though...)
Slacking off
So we can zoom off and team up with other slackers all from the comfort of our home while speaking in pidgin then.