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The Office 365 Groups Disconnect
I dont see how a fully fledged email showing in teams would be that much different than what we have today. I don't see what the issue is, slack accomplishes this just fine. And I could see a couple tweeks to the slack UI that teams could do to make it work pretty well. I mean are the Outlook Group chat is not really that different than the channel chat.
On mobile it isnt an issue becasue those tools are thought to be different and usually using them you are interecting with technically different team. For example, you post to facebook, twitter, and intagram to reach a different audience. It is a painpoint for someone who want to reach all three audiences to post sepertly to each which is why there are apps chreated that bring all these things together into a single communication spot.
If this is microsft plan it is simply anti-productive. Someone who spends all there time in outlook will see the Outlook group there and start posting. When the rest of the team is posting away in Teams. Conversations will be missed. Even if MS makes it to were you can force team conversation to a specific platform. The person who spends most their time in Outlook now had to use 2 tools.
I am not claiming there is an simple fix. Teams puts a large wrench in things becasue the place where the conversation happens (channels) is not what is tied specifically to a group. The lack of the 1 to 1 relationship is problomatic.
I personally much prefer the teams app as do most our team owners. The makup of the teams are about 50/50. Thankfully no one seem to like yammer. Well I should say becasue we never told anyone about it. So as of right now we have split conversations.
Anyway, I dont think there is much that can be done now, but I think this was a big miss that could have been a big win. There would have been less of the which one do I use when, and there would be easier adoption of the tools. As well as leaving it trully open to allow workers to use the tools they are most comfortable with.
I think Jeff has a point and to be frank, when Teams came out, I thought Microsoft will kill the conversations feature in Groups and move it over to Teams. That was my prediction, considering the business users with my clients, and how I predicted these tools will shape the workplace.
Or may be that was just my hope that replacement will happen so what Jeff mentions wouldn't show itself as issue. I think I am wrong at this point.