Facebook connects its Workplace to Microsoft Teams • The Register – TheRegister

Meta, the brand donned by Facebook to launder its past, has expanded its partnership with Microsoft to integrate the Microsoft Teams communications app into its Workplace enterprise social software. Introduced in 2016 by Facebook as a way to expand beyond algorithmic provocation into the recurring revenue of business service subscription fees, Workplace has seen relatively modest adoption compared to Teams, which launched a year later. In May, 2021, the social network said it has managed to attract 7m paying Workplace subscribers, up from 5m in May 2020. Microsoft Teams at the time boasted 145 million daily active users, a figure since revised and recalibrated to 250 million monthly active users – which includes paid, free, and trial users. Workplace already has integrations with Azure Active Directory, Office 365, OneDrive, and SharePoint. Now, with Teams support, those who use both services can avoid copying and pasting data between applications and can rest assured that Meta, and not Facebook, is taking care of their data. “We’re launching an integration between Workplace and Teams, which will give employees access to content from Workplace within Teams without having to switch back and forth between the two apps,” said Ujjwal Singh, head of Workplace at…
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