Microsoft has released on Android application Kaizala, which looks and works about the same as the corporate messenger and task organizer Slack.
This application was developed by Garage laboratory, which is part of Microsoft and is engaged in various experimental projects. Judging by the description in Google Play, this application allows employees to communicate with each other and track the progress of various tasks performed, and all this in a simple chat mode. In other words, with Kaizala, users can simply communicate with each other, and all of their working interaction is based on this correspondence and the documents or information they exchange with each other.
Similarly, the Slack service, which Microsoft was going to buy at the end of last year, works. Slack owners have almost agreed to a deal for eight billion dollars, but the co-founder and largest shareholder of Microsoft insisted that the company does not need to spend so much money, and it is worth trying to create a competing service based on Skype and other applications. Most likely, Kaizala is a trial application, and from how successful it will be, Microsoft will decide whether it needs such a service or this niche is already occupied by Slack and other business chats. If all goes well, in the future Kaizala may be included in the Suite of business applications Office 365 and will be what has not become Skype for Business (and before him — Lync).
