the.com/teams
Where meetings go to multiply, cameras stay off, and someone's still typing.
means Microsoft's collaboration app for chat, video calls, and file-sharing that quietly became the corporate operating system.
from Microsoft launched it in 2017 to ambush Slack, then bundled it free with Office until resistance felt pointless.
Antitrust troubleEU forced its unbundling from Office in 2024.
Pandemic surgeDaily users leapt from 20 million to 75 million.
The phantom clickYou're on mute is its national anthem.