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Microsoft Teams Announces New Office 365 Integrations; Gets More Serious On Slack Competition

Microsoft Teams is targeting all 85 million monthly active Office 365 users following a notable success with 50,000 organizations who have signed up to try the new service and those who opted to stay on. Organizations which are now using Teams include Accenture, Conoco-Phillips, Alaska Airlines, Deloitte, J.B. Hunt, Expedia, J. Walter Thompson, Trek Bicycle, Hendrick Motorsports, and Three UK. Though may be late in the game given the rapid growth of Slack and other similar services like FB's Workplace and Atlassian's Hipchat, Microsoft is banking on its huge user base and primarily pitching its Office integration to entice organizations to try out Microsoft Teams.