Jaysen
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AAA games aren't a sure thing no matter how much money you spend. MS should have shown you that by now.
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Microsoft is in talks to acquire Discord, a video-game chat community, for more than $10 billion
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Infrastructure and data harvesting for advertising.
squarealex
Member
Fk this company seriously
AJUMP23
Member
Consolidation is going to happen, I don't like Amazon owning most of the internets infrastructure.
alabtrosMyster
Banned
yes, do it... like you did Skype ! and Hotmail! and Lync, and MSN messenger...
Here is a list (3x more than Google BTW)
A Complete All-Time List of Discontinued Microsoft Products Since 1975 - Version Museum
Microsoft has retired over 300 software and hardware products since its founding in 1975. We take an in-depth look at Microsoft's sunset and deprecated products, with images of each.
They even discontinued this gem before it was even released!
Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
I was replying to the context of a guy comparing this (rumored) acquisition to Mixer. Mixer was also originally purchased by Microsoft as Beam.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Yeah but Beam was a nobody... unlike Linkedin, github or discord.
Lupin the Third
Member
Are we talking about the day I opened Skype and it had been transformed from a regular-looking desktop Windows application to some rainbow-vomit mobile app wannabe with a wildly different interface? Because that was literally the day I told myself I'd never use Skype again and found Discord.
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ethomaz
Banned
You need to download the Skype Desktop directly from the site and not the one on Windows Store... that one is crap.
It s so weird that Windows Store version because it need to reopen every time you need to open a chat even with it at tray... the Skype from the site stay on background so you have all opened like a normal chatter app.
I can maintain all the time the Skype Desktop opened in my PC without any heavy issue like Teams.
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martino
Member
and how is wishing they remain independent incompatible with them looking for a buyer or reading the article ?
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Jemm
Member
Mixer failed, since Twitch is too big. It was too late to compete with it. I don't think Discord has similar competition in the consumer space.
Also, I don't believe that MS will merge products (other than maybe logins). No sense to mix Skype/Teams/etc with a completely different kind of product and user base.
Also, I don't believe that MS will merge products (other than maybe logins). No sense to mix Skype/Teams/etc with a completely different kind of product and user base.
HTK
Banned
I think this is a great move by Microsoft.
I was just thinking the other day with so many games having cross play it sure would be nice to have a PARTY CHAT that unifies all my friends without using the terrible in-game system. This makes sense for Microsoft since all their games are on Xbox and PC.
I was just thinking the other day with so many games having cross play it sure would be nice to have a PARTY CHAT that unifies all my friends without using the terrible in-game system. This makes sense for Microsoft since all their games are on Xbox and PC.
alabtrosMyster
Banned
LinkedIn became even more annoying after they bought it.
Lupin the Third
Member
I have never used Windows Store. And this happened several years ago.
manfestival
Member
Not a fan of this move but like all things that they do. End up actually not caring in the end.
ethomaz
Banned
Well you won't believe how the Windows Store version is (it is the one installed by default on Windows 10)
The Skype Desktop is not that different from the old versions I guess.
But seems like they changed the Windows Store version for the Desktop: https://www.neowin.net/news/skypes-microsoft-store-app-is-being-replaced-with-the-desktop-version/
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Outrunner
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Lupin the Third
Member
For reference, I found a Wired UK article that talked about the changeover.
www.wired.co.uk
How Skype lost its crown to Zoom
Skype should have dominated lockdown communications, but now we’re all stuck on Zoom calls. What went wrong?
ethomaz
Banned
Zoom is pretty good.... it has less features than Teams but it is way lighter and preferred for video calls, desktop sharing and remote assistence.For reference, I found a Wired UK article that talked about the changeover.
How Skype lost its crown to Zoom
Skype should have dominated lockdown communications, but now we’re all stuck on Zoom calls. What went wrong?
Skype today I only use for chat... working chat... I don't use it for personal.
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alabtrosMyster
Banned
Facebook and YouTube are the ones eating twitche's lunch (mainly Facebook I believe).
And everyone wants a credible alternative to these services, MS aren't going to provide anything else than more of the same issues... Let's not forget how Discord already started purging groups who don't align exactly to their world view.
martino
Member
We have both where i work
zoom use less memory for sure but teams use no cpu when i do nothing unlike yours.
Also teams is an electron app.Advantages of it come with other costs.
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ethomaz
Banned
It is because I'm receiving messages when I'm doing nothing... there are tons of notifications too... and it is not just small messagens... it is wall texts together with images and stuffs.
So even in backgound without my use it is using the CPU.... I probably got a peak CPU usage in my picture because I never saw it cross 50%.
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martino
Member
So it's not doing nothing...
You...you always redefine everything in the strangest way.
ethomaz
Banned
I'm not using it.
There is no way I can stop it to receive messages lol (it is part of the business).
C'mon it was created to do that.
I pointed in the previous posts that maybe you guys are not using the Teams across your organization and just for video calls when needed... I have 4 organizations (4 different companies) and several teams signed in Teams.
That is why it is called Teams.
I'm using it on iPhone as workaround that is fine.
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Redlancet
Banned
Lol at people bragging about a company money, dude you aint gonna get a dime son
nemiroff
Gold Member
That's a bit surprising to me. We use Teams every day in our software development team, it always runs in the background on our PCs, and every morning for our morning meetings via vpn, and our 4000+ employee-sized business uses it for company wide meetings and all-hands-on monthly, can't remember even a single time it had a hiccup.
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IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
It's ethomaz.
Stuart360
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martino
Member
Mine is ~ 1200 and i have a low number of teams subscriptions with 17.
I really have a theory he posts from bizarro world
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Cockles & Whelks
Banned
Chat with a shitty interface. At least when I tried it. Perfect example of how a fool can be parted with his money.
martino
Member
i'm really curious now, what is this app with a better UX ?
Maybe youy will make me discover a better product (i really doubt it but you never know)
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
I'd rather it stay that way. I very much like it with people having their own space to chat and have fun. MMO raiding discords are well organized too.
Oh well there's always a bigger fish. If it gets assimilated by a whale I'll go find another clam to crawl into. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Whose the fool here in this sentence? lol
It has ~150 million active users and estimated 9 figure revenue.
That combo makes it incredibly attractive for a company that can integrate other services into it. Amazon and Microsoft probably being the most interested.
Even something as simple as GamePass being buyable via Discord would be massive for MS. Let alone further integration; Discord at one point attempted to run a game store.. and MS.. well..
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Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
This is the best gist of your entire post history.
Enough already. I mean it is DISCORD's to sell. Seriously though they're just scooping things up and you have to wonder if they've actually got a plan for this or - as someone alluded above - if it is just another data source to add to their trove and mine further advertising insights from.
Papacheeks
Banned
I wonder if the recent name change of XBox live to Xbox Network is a clue to whats slowly changing behind the scenes for the platform. If any company could integrate discord into an OS it;s Microsoft. Now having it not get fucked by them like Skype is a whole different story.
But I can't stand xbox live party chat on PC it blows. SO I use discord exclusively.
Unrivaledx88
Member
I feel like MS is horrible at managing Companies once they buy them,
how is skype doing? I havent kept up
how is skype doing? I havent kept up
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
MS's ad business isn't that important to them. Nobody spends $10 billion to scrub some data from chats lol
Discord has 150 million monthly users, a huge chunk of them gamers using the service to stream games, socialize about games, use voice chat features while gaming...
It's not really a mystery what "plan" MS would have w/ it..
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martino
Member
My plan was better and for it to be the community/chat product integrated everywhere to gather us all
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I use advertising and user-data interchangeably; and we're not talking about "some data" here. If anything, the past year has demonstrated that Discord conversations go well beyond min-maxing Path of Exile builds.
Microsoft outsource most of their advertising to Verizon, that's how little they care.
CatLady
Selfishly plays on Xbox Purr-ies X
That's their lunch money. Their revenue for 2020 was $143 Billion.
Microsoft Quarterly and Annual Revenue | Craft.co
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Hitchyhero
Banned
As an xbox gamer I don't see the point?
How on earth is discord even worth this much. Double that of Marvel, double that or star wars, and more than bathesda?!
I personally think the money would be better spent on another studio. But then I'm probably not seeing something MS see as I'm just a regular pleb. They must be see it as a good investment to make some decent profit out of it.
How on earth is discord even worth this much. Double that of Marvel, double that or star wars, and more than bathesda?!
I personally think the money would be better spent on another studio. But then I'm probably not seeing something MS see as I'm just a regular pleb. They must be see it as a good investment to make some decent profit out of it.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
It's still harvested information they make money off of. All the big companies do this.
Bryank75
Banned
Really? I think Jim Ryan is happy enough with his 80 euro games and putting exclusives on PC, while closing down everything he possibly can to make it seem like he made big money's!!!
Jim Ryan, big money's!
Next: 'What's this Naughty Dog thing? It's costing a lot of money.... close it down!'
Definitely but all data can used to make money via improving features to predicting trends.
Stray Parts
Member
There is Guilded if looking for a discord clone.
Discord is kind of like Twitch (& deeply intertwined with it unofficially) once you capture the user base they are unlikely to leave unless you can split it at a generational level so young people move away from discord.
I'm not a fan of discord but another megacorp owning another social network is not great.
Discord is kind of like Twitch (& deeply intertwined with it unofficially) once you capture the user base they are unlikely to leave unless you can split it at a generational level so young people move away from discord.
I'm not a fan of discord but another megacorp owning another social network is not great.
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