When exactly will these options, the creators Slack not reported, it was said only that the testing of new features will begin "very soon." This "very soon" should not simply make competitors nervous - video calls Slack may mean the death of a Skype - this forecast does Quartz correspondent Josh Horwitz.
The rapid success of Slack has made him the darling of Silicon Valley. The application, which appeared in August 2013, investors in a year after the launch estimated at $ 1 billion and after another half year estimate has more than doubled, reaching $ 2.8 billion; while in 2015 the company predicted revenue of $ 30 million.
Today Slack 2,3 million daily active users, according to figures that the company's representatives voiced at a press conference in San Francisco. This is not a shocking figure - from Skype users twice but other data are impressive: a corporate instant messenger use 320 million minutes a day, that is, each user operates it for 140 minutes a day. How Quartz notes audience Slack, Skype and Google Hangouts very much overlap with each other. How - to say impossible, but it is quite obvious that the majority of people who use Slack business, go parallel to other messengers, when they need to make a call or hold a video conference. But Google relatively indifferent to the innovations in Slack, as the corporation earns to the messenger and advertising. But Skype have worried.
Service includes Microsoft framework, using 4.9 million people a day (the latest available statistics dates back to February 2014) - more than the Slack. But, it suggests the Quartz, business customers are Skype which paid for the use of the application is likely to simultaneously work with service-competitor, Slack, - it is considered more modern, comfortable and just like people. Video chatting and the ability to make voice calls - in fact, the only thing missing in the Slack. When these options are available, business users will be able to switch to one messenger, instead of using two different.
In addition, Skype is not a key service for Microsoft - messenger brings her a small part of the total income. In public statements the company does not split income on services, but it is known that in 2013, Skype has given Microsoft about $ 2 billion. Total revenue in the same year amounted to almost $ 78 billion.
A few months ago, representing the Office 2016, the Microsoft marketing director Chris Capossela said that the corporation sees Skype as a "Slack killer in organizations that use Outlook". Unfortunately for Microsoft, today's organizations want to Slack.
