Microsoft Is Challenging Slack With a Chat System Featuring an Army of 85 Bots

They will provide workers more assistance

Microsoft, as expected at its Office event today, pulled back the curtain on its Slack competitor, which is called Microsoft Teams. Since launching in 2009, Slack has become a popular, real-time chat system for companies and organizations that want employees to communicate in a more seamless fashion than email.

With Microsoft Teams, the tech giant is mimicking some of Slack's features, including departmental channels/chat rooms, app-search capabilities and the sharing of GIFs and memes. What businesses might find more enticing is the 85 artificial intelligence bots built into Microsoft Teams.

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