Pour One Out For All The Activision Blizzard Employees Moving To Microsoft Teams

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Microsoft Teams is the absolute worst. It’s like Slack, but filled with so many weird design decisions and irksome features that using it becomes a frequent obstacle in your daily life. That, and “I’ll just Slack that to you” sounds perfectly natural, while “Let me just Teams that over” makes me want to report your ass to HR and never speak to you again.

It’s an awful application, but one a large majority of companies decide to use because it doesn’t require a premium membership to use its better features and also gels alongside existing email clients and other programmes that are fairly commonplace. We’re all about Google here at TheGamer - throwing all of our top secret assignments and razor-sharp takes into Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Fridge, and whatever else. That last one might not be real, but it should be. You can have that idea for free, Google, just send me one to review.

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This week saw Microsoft announce the unparalleled acquisition of Activision Blizzard, scooping up the company and all of its assets for the eye-watering price of $70 billion. That’s a lot of money, and way more than it costs to pick up an annual Slack membership. Now, thousands upon thousands of employees suddenly find themselves under the leadership of Microsoft, operating under a new team with new goals, culture, and more which will evolve over the coming months and years. That’s a big change, but none more so than Teams.

Perhaps I’m being a little harsh, but before I became Gay Cartoon Queen at TheGamer I worked at a company that continually insisted that we used Microsoft Teams, highlighting its benefits over Slack and ensuring it will help promote synergy throughout the wider team that