为什么一款优秀的企业协同办公软件一定要有windows客户端

很多人都看衰windows客户端，这很正常，毕竟是移动的浪潮越来越大。

我们也看到微信、QQ等windows客户端也是做得越来越轻量级。

那么windows客户端已经被判死刑了吗？

说这句话我觉得为时过早，很多软件还是需要windows客户端的。

我们就拿一些办公协同软件来说，刚刚出的企业微信也是主推windows客户端的。

我们看看国外的独角兽：slack

首先需要明确的一个问题：为什么slack不是一开始就推出windows客户端呢？

是这样的，绝对不是他们认为windows客户端是鸡肋。

我们看看slack是怎么回答的：

It will: it’s in active development now. We hoped to have one earlier, but finding Windows developers is not easy

Starting with Macs made sense for us since very few of our earliest adopters use Windows.

接下来看看slack自己对windows客户端的描述：

Every week, hundreds of thousands of people all around the world sign into Slack from a web browser on Windows. Each of them is (we imagine) yearning for something more. More than 30% of our users run Windows, and their disappointment in the lack of desktop app has been noted. Today, we provide our answer:



No more browser tabs for you.

Maintaining multiple teams in the browser means keeping one tab open per team, and as we all know, tab real estate doesn’t come cheap these days. Enter the Team Switcher: all of your teams, perched on the left side, each with their own notification count, ordered however you see fit (with handy keyboard shortcuts for switching among ‘em).

For anyone used to desktop notifications in the web version, be prepared: the notifications in the app go above and beyond. Each one is hand-crafted and locally sourced to match your team’s theme. Whenever you receive a notification, we’ll light up the taskbar so that you know something’s up, even when you come back to your desk. And if you’re busy — doing an important presentation, perhaps? — we’ll keep it to ourselves until you’re done. We’re very polite that way.

All the sensible-seeming Windows preferences are now included for your customization. When the window is closed, Slack for Windows will run from the tray, unseen but still heard. Clicking the tray icon will summon the app to do your bidding once more. And of course, no Windows app would be complete without the option to automatically launch on login.

We want Slack to be a great experience for everyone, whether you’re using your laptop, your computer, or your toaster oven. We don’t have anything from our toaster oven department to share today, but, if it’s any compensation, we’ve worked hard to create an app that Windows users deserve.

中心思想就是：windows客户端比浏览器好用的太多，比如你在两个不同的团队，你很容易就关掉浏览器。

对于企业级市场，可以说windows客户端起着举足轻重的作用。只拿消息通知一项，你就没有任何理由轻慢他。

有人会说trello就是要使用web浏览器，真的吗？你可以去windows商店里搜搜看，结果如何。