Is Microsoft Teams stealing the limelight from Slack?
As recent research indicates that newcomer Microsoft Teams is set to dominate the collaborative app space among businesses by 2020, Marian McHugh investigates its advantage over its rivals and whether it truly poses a challenge to email
There has been a veritable explosion in workplace sharing platforms in the past five years, with some doomsayers proclaiming that the likes of Slack and Dropbox would spell the end for the trusty email....
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