Microsoft Teams (Slack competitor) will be launched in a few minutes: http://news.microsoft.com/november-2016-event/

I think they did a good job promoting their competitor. I had no idea that Microsoft had such a product. Now I'm interested.

I guess if your only product is a chat platform, how much can you innovate in this space in 2016? I'd be desperate too.

Can ms do something better than the pile of crap that is Skype for business?

Just use Lotus Sametime for a few hours and you will worship Skype for business for life.

One slim advantage of Sametime, at least the ancient, pre-Eclipse clients, was that you could actually run multiple instances and sign into two accounts at the same time.

Lync has a stupid mutex that prevents this.

Ah, we don't have that problem because that is anyway forbidden, we are only allowed to use our official account.

Ah yes, but what IBM does I don't consider software

Skype for business works. IBM stuff doesn't