Teams combines chat, meetings, and Microsoft 365. SetSay is the chat on its own: channels, direct messages, and files in the browser for a team that mostly writes to each other.
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The chat part of Teams
Conversation, files, and a way to find them later.
Channels named for the work
Create a team channel for a project or a topic. Messages, files, and search stay in that channel.
Direct messages
A thread between two teammates, with the files you shared there.
Files in the message
Attach a file and the group opens it from the thread.
Search the workspace
Find a message or a file from the sidebar.
Sign in from a browser
Open SetSay with its own account, separate from any Microsoft 365 tenant.
Private channels
Invite-only rooms for a client or a leadership group.
How to try chat outside the suite
Keep meetings and Office files where they are and move the written conversation.
1. Pick the chats you read daily
Often two or three project rooms.
2. Recreate them in SetSay
Use the same names so people recognize them.
3. Invite the working group
Start with the people who use those rooms.
4. Pin them and try it for a week
See where the team writes the next decision.
SetSay and Microsoft Teams
Teams is the Microsoft suite with meetings included. SetSay is browser chat with channels, direct messages, and files, included with the other DataBorders apps.
Meetings and calls
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Microsoft 365 and Office integration
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Included with the other DataBorders apps
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Capability
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Channels and direct messages
Share files in a conversation
Meetings and calls
Microsoft 365 and Office integration
Included with the other DataBorders apps
Microsoft Teams alternative FAQ
Chat on its own, and what stays in Teams.
For a team whose Teams use is mostly chat, yes. Teams that rely on meetings, calls, or Office integration can keep Teams for those.
You can keep Microsoft 365 for mail, files, and calls, and move the written conversation to SetSay.
Slack is a work platform built around chat. Teams is chat inside the Microsoft suite. See the Slack alternative page.