re: Anyone else work at a company that uses all of the “smaller” services like zoom, slack etc

I loathe Microsoft, but I grudgingly admit that Teams is excellent. It makes my job so much easier.

Or stealing fishing poles from academy

I'm assuming with the AI improvements, there will be less software to hinder things. I would think MicroSoft would have less usage eventually

Sure sure... because Microsoft has always been concerned with privacy and security. Such a solid track record with both. They don't harvest data like everyone else....oh wait.... they do.

Quit pretending they are even slightly better than everyone else. And yes, I use them.