No Slack for you. Microsoft puts rival app on internal list of ‘prohibited and discouraged’ software

guest · Jun 22, 2019

No Slack for you. Microsoft puts rival app on internal list of ‘prohibited and discouraged’ software
June 21, 2019
https://www.geekwire.com/2019/no-sl...nternal-list-prohibited-discouraged-software/

As Slack makes its stock market debut, there’s a major company that won’t be allowing its employees to use the business collaboration and chat app as part of their daily work.
It’s Microsoft, and it’s not just because the Redmond giant is Slack’s biggest competitor through its own Microsoft Teams collaboration app. At least, that’s not the primary stated reason.
[...] the primary criteria for landing in the “prohibited” category are related to IT security and safeguarding company secrets.

Slack is on the “prohibited” category of the internal Microsoft list, along with tools such as the Grammarly grammar checker and Kaspersky security software. Services in the “discouraged” category include Amazon Web Services, Google Docs, PagerDuty and even the cloud version of GitHub, the popular software development hub and community acquired by Microsoft last year for $7.5 billion.

The inclusion of Slack on Microsoft’s “prohibited” list is notable in part because Slack in April unveiled a series of integrations with Microsoft Office 365. However, Slack didn’t work directly with Microsoft on the initiative, instead relying on the tech giant’s APIs and other services for integrating products.
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Floyd 57 · Jun 22, 2019

Would be cool if they posted that list, likely anything on it is not privacy-secure enough to be used by employees who have microsoft data that shouldn't fall in others' hands. Apparently this list has Slack, "Amazon Web Services, Google Docs, PagerDuty and even the cloud version of GitHub"

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