Microsoft Teams vs Quip

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Microsoft Teams vs Quip: What are the differences?

What is Microsoft Teams? Chat-based workspace in Office 365. See content and chat history anytime, including team chats with Skype that are visible to the whole team. Private group chats are available for smaller group conversations.

What is Quip? Messaging and documents. Combined in one place, on any device. Edit and discuss in one place. Quip combines documents with messages so you can work faster, on the web or on the go.

Microsoft Teams can be classified as a tool in the "Group Chat & Notifications" category, while Quip is grouped under "Document Collaboration".

Some of the features offered by Microsoft Teams are:

  • All your content, tools, people, and conversations are available in the team workspace
  • Enjoy built-in access to SharePoint, OneNote, and Skype for Business
  • Work on documents right in the app

On the other hand, Quip provides the following key features:

  • Multi-platform
  • Collaborative editing
  • Integrated messaging

"Free" is the top reason why over 4 developers like Microsoft Teams, while over 5 developers mention "Simple, reliable and fast" as the leading cause for choosing Quip.

Macy's, Heimdal Security, and Sainsburys are some of the popular companies that use Microsoft Teams, whereas Quip is used by Instacart, New Relic, and Yammer. Microsoft Teams has a broader approval, being mentioned in 45 company stacks & 31 developers stacks; compared to Quip, which is listed in 24 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

Decisions about Microsoft Teams and Quip
Mohammad Hossein Amri
Chief Technology Officer at Planally · | 3 upvotes · 237.4K views

we were using slack and at the same time we had a subscription with office 365. after a while we hit the slack free limitation quota. and it got annoying. the search ability was useless in free tier. and more annoying whenever you search, it opens a webpage and doesn't do it in the app.

on mobile there were many cases that I didn't get notification of important discussions. rooms was the way to separate a talk. but it become tedious. each time for a new subject that you wanted to discuss, you needed to add all the team members into a new room. and after a while the room goes silent. you will end up with a tons of not-in-use rooms that you don't want to clean up them for history purposes. also the slack UI for sub discussion is very stupid. if someone forget to check the checkbox to post the subdiscussion in the main discussion thread, other team members even won't notice such discussion is in progress.

we was paying for office 365 and thought why not give the teams a shot. we won't be in worth situation than we are. we moved to teams and we loved it instantly, we had a separate tab aggregated all the files upload. we could reply on other talk. no need of creating a new room. this way room belongs to a team and not a certain topic. our sub discussion was visible to the whole team. enjoyed integration with azure and unlimited history. the best part was integration with outlook. it was a full suit solution. our stats become busy on outlook meeting events. we get weekly analyse. we didn't need to host our wiki seperated. we've created wiki per team. the communication was much more fun.

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Pros of Microsoft Teams
Pros of Quip
  • 28
    Work well with the rest of Office 365 work flow
  • 23
    Mobile friendly
  • 19
    Free
  • 12
    Great integrations
  • 11
    Well-thought Design
  • 10
    Channels
  • 8
    Easy setup
  • 6
    Unlimited users
  • 5
    Strong search and data archiving
  • 4
    Multi domain switching support
  • 4
    Easy to integrate with
  • 3
    Same interface on multiple platforms
  • 3
    Web interface
  • 2
    Great voice quality
  • 6
    Simple, reliable and fast
  • 5
    Enterprise worthy gdocs
  • 2
    Has no competitors for team documentation
  • 1
    Great UI and easy to find docs in colourful files

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Cons of Microsoft Teams
Cons of Quip
  • 17
    Confusing UI
  • 12
    Bad performance on init and after quite a use
  • 10
    Bad Usermanagement
  • 6
    No desktop client (only fat and slow electron app)
  • 6
    Can't see all members in a video meeting
  • 5
    Unable to Mute users
  • 5
    No Markdown Support
  • 4
    You don't really own your messages
  • 4
    MIssing public channels
  • 4
    Forced WYSIWYG
  • 3
    Stubborn, unused friendly
  • 3
    Challenging Onboarding
  • 3
    No linux support
  • 1
    Audio support problems
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    What is Microsoft Teams?

    See content and chat history anytime, including team chats with Skype that are visible to the whole team. Private group chats are available for smaller group conversations.

    What is Quip?

    Edit and discuss in one place. Quip combines documents with messages so you can work faster, on the web or on the go.

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      What are some alternatives to Microsoft Teams and Quip?
      Slack
      Imagine all your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. That’s Slack. All your messages. All your files. And everything from Twitter, Dropbox, Google Docs, Asana, Trello, GitHub and dozens of other services. All together.
      Skype
      Skype’s text, voice and video make it simple to share experiences with the people that matter to you, wherever they are.
      Microsoft SharePoint
      It empowers teamwork with dynamic and productive team sites for every project team, department, and division. Share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to empower teamwork, quickly find information, and seamlessly collaborate across the organization.
      Yammer
      Yammer brings the power of social networking to your company. Collaborate securely across departments, geographies, content and business applications.
      Confluence
      Capture the knowledge that's too often lost in email inboxes and shared network drives in Confluence instead – where it's easy to find, use, and update.
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