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Competition can breed neurosis.
Especially when there’s a competitor who seems, against all rational odds, to have secured hearts even more than minds.
Recently, I wrote about a couple of very senior executives who believe, with an unhealthy passion, that Zoom is far, far superior to Microsoft Teams.
Their emotions were oddly extreme. Their feelings were certainly unbridled.
I received quite the correspondence. Some lauding Zoom, some suggesting that Teams is so much better that they’d like to meet these two executives in a very dark alley. Via Teams, of course.
Yet these Teams defenders tended to point to rational attributes. For example, how well Teams integrates with the other Microsoft software many…