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Microsoft Teams vs Telegram : What are the differences?

Introduction

In a fast-paced digital world, communication platforms like Microsoft Teams and Telegram offer unique features for users. Understanding the key differences between these two platforms can help users choose the one that best suits their needs.

User Base and Focus: Microsoft Teams primarily targets business and enterprise users, offering collaboration tools, integration with Office 365, and organizational features. On the other hand, Telegram appeals to a wider user base with a focus on security, privacy, and user customization. It is popular among individuals who value anonymity and encryption in their communications.
Platform Integration: Microsoft Teams is deeply integrated with other Microsoft products such as Outlook, Word, and Excel, making it a seamless choice for organizations already using the Microsoft ecosystem. In contrast, Telegram is designed to be a standalone platform that can be used across multiple devices without the need for external integrations.
Security Features: Microsoft Teams offers end-to-end encryption for messages, files, and calls, ensuring data privacy within the organization. Telegram, on the other hand, provides optional end-to-end encryption for secret chats, allowing users to control the security levels of their conversations. It also offers self-destructing messages for added privacy.
File Sharing and Collaboration: Microsoft Teams excels in team collaboration with features like shared files, cloud storage, real-time editing, and integrated apps for project management. Telegram also supports file sharing but is more focused on individual chats and content sharing, with limited collaboration tools compared to Microsoft Teams.
Customization and Bots: Telegram allows users to create custom stickers, themes, and bots, offering a high level of personalization and interactivity in conversations. In contrast, Microsoft Teams focuses on productivity tools and workflow automation, with limited scope for customization and bot interactions in comparison to Telegram.
Monetization and Support: Microsoft Teams is a subscription-based service within Office 365, providing dedicated support, regular updates, and enterprise-level features. Telegram, on the other hand, is free to use and does not display ads, relying on donations and premium services for monetization, with community-driven support and feature updates.

In Summary, Microsoft Teams is tailored for professional collaboration within organizations, while Telegram offers a versatile platform with a strong emphasis on security and customization for a broader user base.

Advice on Telegram , Microsoft Teams

Mohammad Hossein

Chief Technology Officer at Planallay Sdn Bhd

Jan 17, 2020

Decided

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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Detailed Comparison

Telegram	Microsoft Teams
Users can send messages and exchange photos, videos, stickers, audio and files of any type. It provides instant messaging, simple, fast, secure and synced across all your devices.	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.
Simple; Fast; Secure; Expressive; Social	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
Statistics
Stacks 751	Stacks 2.4K
Followers 634	Followers 1.7K
Votes 51	Votes 144
Pros & Cons
Pros 16 Lightweight 8 Great bot API 8 Free 8 Unlimited history 4 Can hide phone number Cons 3 Notification customisation is limited 3 Requires phone number 2 No video call	Pros 29 Work well with the rest of Office 365 work flow 24 Mobile friendly 19 Free 12 Great integrations 12 Well-thought Design Cons 17 Confusing UI 12 Bad performance on init and after quite a use 10 Bad Usermanagement 6 Can't see all members in a video meeting 6 No desktop client (only fat and slow electron app)
Integrations
Linux macOS Windows	Skype

What are some alternatives to Telegram , Microsoft Teams?

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.

HipChat

HipChat is a hosted private chat service for your company or team. Invite colleagues to share ideas and files in persistent group chat rooms. Get your team off AIM, Google Talk, and Skype — HipChat was built for business.

Zulip

Zulip is powerful, open source team chat that combines the immediacy of real-time chat with the productivity benefits of threaded conversations. Zulip allows busy managers and others in meetings all day to participate in their teams chats.

RocketChat

Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework. It is a great solution for communities and companies wanting to privately host their own chat service or for developers looking forward to build and evolve their own chat platforms.

Mattermost

Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.

Gitter

Free chat rooms for your public repositories. A bit like IRC only smarter. Chats for private repositories as well as organisations.

Flowdock

Flowdock is a web-based team chat service that integrates with your tools to provide a window into your team's activities. With the team inbox, everyone on your team can stay up to date. Stay connected with Flowdock's iOS and Android apps.

Keybase Teams

Keybase is for anyone. Imagine a Slack for the whole world, except end-to-end encrypted across all your devices. Or a Team Dropbox where the server can't leak your files or be hacked.

Fleep

Leave email behind and manage all conversations with your team, partners and clients in Fleep. If some of them are not Fleep users yet, they will receive all messages as normal emails.

Let's Chat

Let's Chat is a persistent messaging application that runs on Node.js and MongoDB. It's designed to be easily deployable and fits well with small, intimate teams. It's free (MIT licensed) and ships with killer features such as LDAP/Kerberos authentication, a REST-like API and XMPP support.