Bernkastel
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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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The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
People seem to forget that Microsoft isn't only Xbox.
Microsoft delivers professional solutions to other companies in form of Office, Skype, and now they probably also want a chat room solution to businesses as well.
Imagine being such a dedicated Sony fanboy that it is impossible to use software that has Microsofts name on it.
Microsoft delivers professional solutions to other companies in form of Office, Skype, and now they probably also want a chat room solution to businesses as well.
Imagine being such a dedicated Sony fanboy that it is impossible to use software that has Microsofts name on it.
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wut??? because ms doesnt even feel any pressure from sony ?
and this acquisition if happen have nothing to do with Sony vs ms
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GymWolf
Member
Sure, buying bethesda and discord is clearly the move of someone who doesn't feel pressure from the other big vg companies who did better in the past gen...
I often spend almost 20 billion dollars just to buy some food where i'm not hungry.
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Kerotan
Member
Personally I think it's worth more. I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook, amazon and MS get into a bidding war.
Again discord acquisition it would not happen with the idea of Xbox it would certainly help the division with a probable integration as a side effect...but this would be 'ms looking for companies that can strengthen the offer of azure
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It's hard to convince people that teams isn't a consumer product
ethomaz
Banned
Discord is not game centric only... it is about everything.... there are several servers for Anime, Series, Mangá, Translation, Novels, etc etc etc.
It is all type of discussions.
We are talking here about a MS acquisition as whole and not just the Uncle Phil division... Phil is probably not even on par with the negotiations.
It is all type of discussions.
We are talking here about a MS acquisition as whole and not just the Uncle Phil division... Phil is probably not even on par with the negotiations.
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ethomaz
Banned
Teams is utter shit... it is the sucessor of way superior Skype Business.
Discord and Teams are not even for the same tasks... Teams is focused in team work tasks for corporations.... it is similar to Zoom, Slack, etc.
Discord is for general community talk similar to WhatsApp, Telegram, etc.
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Unknown?
Member
You must not be familiar with the spyware that is Windows 10. https://www.privacytools.io/operating-systems/#win10
Discord will be another avenue of selling user data for them. It's not like Discord isn't already doing this as their privacy policy isn't very good.
ChuckeRearmed
Member
It would be nice. Also native support for Xbox would be good + possible Nitro perk into Game Pass Ultimate.
Stuart360
Member
If you read the article, its Discord themselves trying to find a buyer.
KiNeMz
Banned
You may say teams is shit. But what component? If you wanna compare voice/PBX features then yes teams doesnt compare to Skype for business. But it's getting there. When it comes to collaboration, channels, persistent chat it destroys Skype. I know I've been building Lync/Skype platforms for major Australian business for years now.
People that say they destroyed consumer Skype. You may be right. But they didn't purchase consumer Skype for consumer. They bought to enhance their enterprise product. They built the Teams backbone infrastructure of the the Skype platform. So Teams is basically Skype. With SharePoint included. The engine, server infrastructure and codecs all Skype.
They could easily branch off teams, brandish it with a different name to match discord features and make it more consumer centric.
But maybe they just want the customer base.
I just don't see why they need the discord tech when they already have it.
Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
Skype and Skype for Business are two completely different products. The latter is just a rebranding of Microsoft Lync and is just an objectively inferior product to Microsoft Teams. Skype for Business will be retired in July 31, 2021 and they will only promote Microsoft Teams to businesses and enterprises henceforth.
ethomaz
Banned
It is too slow even in high-end PCs... it make my work slower because it always frooze to make anything (I end it when I don't need to use and my PC become so fast) and my development tools get slowed because the Teams is using too much memory and CPU.
It is confusion... I'm signed to different organizations and the way it works is a pain.
Voice and video is good when it works.... most of time I have to try again because it fails to enters in video conference rooms... the remote desktop feature is lagged.
I mean it is the complete opposite of the simplicity of the Skype Business... here at work when Teams start to be an issue I ask people to change to Skype or Zoom (Zoom is very very good for video conference and remote desktop sharing).
It is the default App in the company I work.
Yeap... I know and Skype Business was vastly superior to Teams.
Teams is counter-productive and Skype Business not.
Already tried to use a Virtual Machine with Teams opened?
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I think you need to check your system as I've literally never had any of those problems on mine, and we run over a slow ass VPN that screws all kinds of things up usually.
Teams is a great bit of kit, file sharing for example is really useful.
ethomaz
Banned
My machine is very very high-end (8-core/16 threads CPU, 16GB RAM, SSD, etc) because I need it for my development tools that takes a lot of resource.
The Teams just take everything and make the work a pain.
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I don't believe this but who knows? Facebook bought whatsapp becuse their intel was showing it to be outperforming facebook messaenger by miles and a potential facebook killer. Maybe MS saw something but frankly, just buy more publishers if you have 10 illion ready, Microsoft. CD Projekt has never been this affordable and you could probably get them with Square Enix for that price, gosh.
KiNeMz
Banned
I would say that it hasn't been implemented correctly. I've seen so many businesses just turn it on In o365 and expect it to work. There's alot of work to go on behind the scenes to deploy Teams correctly. I digress. They both have their pros and cons. It can be a resource hog. But so can discord.
MiguelItUp
Member
Much like a lot of PC fans, I absolutely love Discord. But this definitely concerns me with how things like Skype and Mixer were handled. As long as there's a world where we know Discord will remain intact and be okay, I'd have no problem with it. But, other than that. Ugh. Don't do it, lol.
ethomaz
Banned
I don't use Discord for PC so I can't tell... I use on Phone and it works pretty weel.
BTW I'm right now using Team on Phone as a workaround and it is heavy (slower in navigation) than Discord in a IPhone 11... I started to use it on iPhone for chat and just open it on PC for video conferences.
Here at our team we use Zoom when Teams is not required but our whole company and customers uses Teams.
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Roman Empire
Member
I don't like the idea of Microsoft buying Discord because do people remember Skype? Neither do I.
I use Discord a lot, so I wish they'd rather go public than being bought.
I use Discord a lot, so I wish they'd rather go public than being bought.
Doesnt matter how high end your machine is, that doesnt stop software from being badly set up. My works machine is high end too, and I have never had any of the problems you have had, nor have any of my colleagues.
ethomaz
Banned
Badly setup? There is no option to setup Teams... you install it and choose to let it run in background ou not... if I let it in background it basically make my work slower due how much hungry for resources it is.
Maybe your company has a light use of the Teams... here it is having chating all the time with several organizations and rooms.
BTW if you go on MS dev community you will find tons of threads with Teams UI slow, lagged or irresponsible... not is not my issue.
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Shubh_C63
Member
I think it shows this is more of a business-business purchase rather than gaming-purchase.
Hooking so many already using Discord users in their eco system is massive for these companies.
How hungry? I`m on a call now, multiple users and I`m presenting showing drawings and teams is using 3% CPU, 360MB Memory and 0.3Mbps network. Its a bit hungry on memory but not that bad, in fact I have 2 Google Chrome tabs open and they are using almost the same amount of resource.
cyberheater
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Our organisation is run on Teams. We have thousands of low end laptops at peoples home (due to lockdown) which work great on teams. Sounds like a setup issue. Hope you get it sorted.
ethomaz
Banned
Hungry enough to make others apps not run fast... like high CPU usage and RAM... I mean how can Teams use 30% of the CPU? Or over 1GB or RAM?
I already tried everything even follow that article: https://www.technipages.com/fix-microsoft-teams-high-cpu-and-memory-usage
Maybe you use of Teams is not like the all organizations I have on it... probably to a small number of organizations, rooms, chats, tabs, etc it should work better.... I don't know.
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Like I said, that sounds like something is setup wrong as I`ve never had Teams slow anything down, and certainly not use up that kind of resource.
Kokoloko85
Member
Id rather Tencent at this rate haha
AJUMP23
Member
Just move to China you commie.
I don't really know why MS would want Discord, I assume the creators of Discord are ready to cash out.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Linkedin and github were succesful business that Microsoft purchased... hence the enormous amounts of money they paid.
Mixer is what happens when MS tries to start something from the ground up.
Timberwolf25
Member
When you look at the censoring practices of Amazon (Twitch) and Facebook, I'd take MS buying them over those others if they are looking to be bought.
Someone's going to do it if they are acticely looking for a buyer.
Someone's going to do it if they are acticely looking for a buyer.
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Kokoloko85
Member
ethomaz
Banned
I just opened the Teams... waited 5 minutes and took the screen.... I was doing nothing.
Of course I have a Virtual Machine running all the time but it setup is very light with only 2 cores and 2.5GB of RAM.... even so it is a VM with Legacy DevTools running (just the DevTool takes 1GB or more RAM but it was not opened right now) but the VM never go over 1.8-2.0 GB RAM of the RAM allocated.
As a developer for Windows I can't understand how a App for videoconferences can take that much RAM and CPU when not doing video conferences... I can understand using the video or audio feature because there is audio/video transcode but not just chatting.
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EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
Never heard of discord.