- Google Chat makes the latest steps to challenge Microsoft -team
- Administrators can now migrate microsoft teams channel data to chat
- Customizing, including date areas, supported
Google takes its battle for supremacy in the online collaborative space to a new level with the public launch of a tool designed to take users away from one of its biggest competitors.
The company has officially released a new service, making it easier to migrate Microsoft Teams conversations to its own chat service.
First advertised in December 2024, the migration tool is now generally available to all Google Chat users, where the company hopes that companies can more easily implement the platform by experiencing less downtime and friction during the transition.
Goodbye Microsoft -team?
“We are expanding our data immigration experience to include the ability of Google Workspace administrators to migrate conversations from channels in Microsoft Teams to Space in Google Chat,” the company initial noticed in a Google Workspace update blog post announcing the news.
Within the ‘Chat Migration’ menu in Google Chat, administrators can connect to opposite Microsoft accounts to import teams data. Migration cards and identity cards can be uploaded as CSV files, and administrators will also have the opportunity to enter the start date of messages to be migrated from.
“You can also run a delta migration that will migrate all messages added to team channels since the primary migration. Messages already migrated successfully have skipped, ”Google added.
Administrators can also produce reports based on completed migrations to identify content that jumped, failed or had warnings.
In addition, the feature requires those who take the action to be Google Super Admins and Microsoft Teams’ global administrators.
All customers who still need to use the two platforms (and/or others) should consider activating MIO, a third -party service with which Google advertised its interoperability, along with teams and zoom, back in 2024.
The news comes at a slightly difficult time for Microsoft teams as the company continues its fight with EU regulators on potential antitrust problems.
The latest Salvo from legislators could actually see the price of Microsoft Office (including teams) subscriptions are increasing significantly, despite the fact that unbound teams from its software in 2024.
