Microsoft announced that its group discussion service, Teams, now had 20 million daily active users (DAUs) after its launch just two years ago, in 2017.
Last July, the company revealed that the service had crossed the threshold of 13 million DAUs, but it seems that the equipment has been adopted more and more in recent months, more and more. Organizations that choose to use it instead of Slack.
Slack, on the other hand, surpassed 12 million DAUs in October, and it looks like the service is behind schedule to catch up if it wants to beat Microsoft teams at least in terms of daily active users.
Engagement versus daily active users
While Microsoft Teams now has more active daily users than Slack, the messaging service claims that its users are more engaged on its platform, reflecting the significant market penetration of the market. For example, among its paying customers, Slack claims that its users spend more than nine hours a day connecting to its service. During these nine hours, Slack users typically spend approximately 90 minutes a day actively using the platform.
Microsoft has yet to release similar engagement statistics for teams, but given customer confidence in their office products and cloud services, people are likely to invest in their software ecosystem using the group discussion service as well.
Within two years of the team's launch, Microsoft officials revealed that the service was used by more than 500,000 organizations around the world. However, the software giant didn't start providing daily active user data to teams until July of this year.
Teams is available at no additional cost to Office 365 commercial subscribers, and Microsoft also offers a free version of Teams. Expect your number of daily active users to continue to grow as more and more customers start using chat apps in the workplace, and why adopt a new service while there is already one in the products your organization already uses.
Through ZDNet