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World domination lol
Guess they finally learned their lesson with Mixer? With apps almost no one jumps from the incumbent to a competitor so buy the incumbent rather than building your own?
Teams shits on Skype anyhow. Standard Skype is just fine, the weird cross platform bullshit between Skype for business and Skype can fuck off though.
Yup.Microsoft taking over gaming, a few billion at a time.
I suppose it depends how many users are on it. I mean how much would Facebook cost?, a trillion?.
| Top 10 Largest Software Companies in the World: |
|---|
| 1. MICROSOFT Worldwide software sales: $143.0 billion |
| 2. ORACLE Worldwide software sales: $32.9 billion |
| 3. SAP Worldwide software sales: $27.4 billion |
| 4. SALESFORCE.COM Worldwide software sales: $10.5 billion |
| 5. BROADCOM Worldwide software sales: $9.1 billion |
| 6. ADOBE SYSTEMS Worldwide software sales: $9.03 billion |
| 7. DELL TECHNOLOGIES Worldwide software sales: $9.0 billion |
| 8. HCL ENTERPRISE Worldwide software sales: $7.5 billion |
| 9. INTUIT Worldwide software sales: $6.0 billion |
| 10. FISERV Worldwide software sales: $5.8 billion |
Knowing microsoft, they'll probably force discord accounts to be connected to an Xbox Network account to inflate active user numbers like they usually do
They're buying discord, too bad.
Microsoft didn't ruin Skype, they just didn't do enough to save it. Skype basically operated as it's own company for multiple year after the acquisition. The CEO of Skype at the time of the acquisition became one of the executive vice presidents of Microsoft (reports directly to CEO) and got the reigns to all Microsoft chat apps for enterprise and personal use. Mobile was already popular and getting more and more popular and Skype had some of the worst apps for mobile unstable and extremely slow. With the 20 other IM services being born (or soon to be) that were mobile ready (Messenger, Whatsapp Viber). Skype didn't get a mobile app revamp until Microsoft came in but then it was too little too late. Than there were all the security problems that existed before Microsoft even acquired them. Microsoft basically had to throw out their Windows app out at one point and so they rebuilt it using a new framework (not UWP). There was attempts at innovation but again too little too late. They started to try and replace the Skype engineers with Microsoft engineers but again too little too late. Skype may have been popular and helped make great advancements a long time ago. But Microsoft bought into a company with little innovation and problematic technology.
yup me too. At least there would be a benifit to gamepass.
Yup, this.
Yup. They've adopted the Google model of collecting data and making huge money off of YOU. Sad. Despite their Scroogle ad campaign 8 years ago.
Discord is massive. Every Online game got discord communities.
You can't stop Satya
