MS owns the corporate Desktop: Slack will be crowded out
MS has owned the big corporate desktop since the late 90's. They successfully crowded out competing products when they decided to compete. That's because big corporate IT is all about standardization, homogenization, uniformity in a 1984 kind of way. Which is a reflection on top-down big corporate culture. The hipsters get their niche tools for a little while, but it never lasts. Eventually, the bean counters, the NewSpeak masters and the box-checkers will keep moving their company towards consolidation into fewer, vertically integrated products and services. Arguing for the techical superiority of (federated) XMPP superiority over Microsoft's walled garden is like trying to re-fight Betamax vs VHS. Not a good strategy, especially when the people at the top are the generation who chose VHS.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
