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Communication — Microsoft's Slack competitor — Microsoft Teams is the digital hub that brings conversations, con…
CommunicationWeak defense · network effects (weak)saasest. 2016
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 26, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
19
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
21
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 19 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
19 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 26, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 19 probesavg response 2218 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
teams.microsoft.com
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Microsoft Teams's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 26, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 21 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 41 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Slack 2.0communicationsimilar67%40.00.0● live
Zoomcommunicationsimilar64%35.9+9.9→ redirected
Freshdeskcommunicationsimilar57%25.70.0→ redirected
Video Conferencing Software (Zoom)communicationsimilar56%30.4-9.6● live
LinkedInentertainmenttag-overlap56%47.3+7.3● live
JIRA Softwareproductivitytag-overlap54%40.00.0● live
Office 365productivitytag-overlap54%16.0-24.0→ redirected
Slackcommunicationsimilar52%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelsaas
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternatives41
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-26 09:49Z200teams.microsoft.com1460alive
2026-08-17 14:02Z200teams.microsoft.com2119alive
2026-08-10 00:26Z200teams.microsoft.com1190alive
2026-08-08 05:00Z200teams.microsoft.com1929alive
2026-07-31 15:58Z200teams.microsoft.com1748alive
2026-07-26 17:52Z200teams.microsoft.com1844alive
2026-07-18 14:35Z200teams.microsoft.comMicrosoft-HTTPAPI/2.02824alive
2026-07-14 09:28Z200teams.microsoft.com1979alive
2026-07-04 16:31Z200teams.microsoft.comMicrosoft-HTTPAPI/2.02728alive
2026-07-03 01:09Z200teams.microsoft.com3239alive
2026-06-24 14:07Z200teams.microsoft.com2125alive
2026-06-23 13:17Z200teams.microsoft.com2761alive
2026-06-21 21:35Z200teams.microsoft.comMicrosoft-HTTPAPI/2.02733alive
2026-06-20 19:41Z200teams.microsoft.com2371alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Microsoft Teams · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/microsoft-teams · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.