# Microsoft playing catch-up

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/microsoft-playing-catch-up/957>\
**Category:** Misc\
**Created:** [September 4, 2020, 12:38pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/microsoft-playing-catch-up/957 "2020-09-04T12:38:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 12:38pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/microsoft-playing-catch-up/957/1 "2020-09-04T12:38:50Z")

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Just as we fibery enthusiasts are exploring the many ways in which its capabilities exceed those of the competition (Airtable, Notion, Coda), Microsoft have decided that it’s time to imitate Airtable functionality in Office 365:

> **[Microsoft Lists begins general availability roll out to Microsoft 365](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/microsoft-lists-begins-general-availability-roll-out-to/ba-p/1524768)**
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> \[Availability update | In July 2020, Microsoft Lists began roll out to Targeted Release (TR) customers in Microsoft 365. We released the Lists app for Microsoft Teams in August 2020. And now, we are pleased to report that Microsoft Lists has...

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**Author:** ![victoria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ea5d25/32.png) [@victoria](https://community.fibery.io/u/victoria)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2021, 7:56am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/microsoft-playing-catch-up/957/2 "2021-09-04T07:56:55Z")

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(…11months later)… I just tried to use this Lists function within teams. It looks nice, but getting headaches just thinking about the general tower of babel of apps MS teams contains and the information flow. Where does the list go once it is completed? Delete it? Doesn’t seem to any obvious way of archiving. And then what? End up with a whole bunch of obselete tabs? Was hoping for more from MS Teams but rather than creating structures to house information and letting the information flow through, it seems you have to create a new structure each time (or maybe I am doing it wrong?) The Fibery approach is more zen like for smaller projects…or more intuitive