Microsoft

  • Microsoft is seeing an explosion of usage across their cloud product suites – this is expected.
  • Interestingly they are rather selective with the data they provide.
  • This includes making a mistake in a recent post:
  • We have seen a 775 percent increase of our cloud services in regions that have enforced social distancing or shelter in place orders.
  • We have seen a 775 percent increase in Teams’ calling and meeting monthly users in a one month period in Italy, where social distancing or shelter in place orders have been enforced.
  • That is a big difference.
  • They also put out press saying video calling on Teams was +1000% in March – yet without an absolute figure or comparison this isn’t that meaningful.
  • There is no doubt Teams is growing – now up to 44m daily average users (DAU) from 20m in November 2019.
  • However, as Slack CEO points out (and he would) – this is only 20% of Office 365 users.
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