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Re:Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus... by apocalyptic0n3 on Friday March 04, 2016 @01:24PM (#11225745)
It's far more than web-based IRC and has a substantial userbase, a significant number of whom are paying for the service. Given the failures MS has had with communication tools in the past, I'm not surprised at all they mulled an $8B acquisition of Slack
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Re:Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus... by vpkaihla on Friday March 04, 2016 @01:35PM (#11225837)
> It's far more than web-based IRC

How exactly?

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Re:Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus... by ChrisLTD on Friday March 04, 2016 @02:52PM (#11226439)
Inline animated gif support.
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Re:Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus... by avtar on Friday March 04, 2016 @03:49PM (#11226748)
Mobile clients, persistent chat history when switching clients/devices, search, @mentions notify you when you're away from your desk, and easy integrations with lots of services.

P.S. I mainly use IRC everyday :)

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Re:Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus... by ant6n on Friday March 04, 2016 @07:00PM (#11227682)
"persistent" up to 10,000 messages per team.
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Re:Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus... by zaphar on Saturday March 05, 2016 @09:55AM (#11229649)
Forever if you pay for it.

i.e. they have a revenue stream.

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Re:Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus... by pmlnr on Friday March 04, 2016 @04:02PM (#11226827)
Which is IRC + ZNC + Andchat + bots...
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Re:Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus... by gisenberg on Friday March 04, 2016 @05:11PM (#11227219)
This echoes the "couldn't you just replicate Dropbox with x + y + z ..." mindset of the past.
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Re:Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus... by drdaeman on Friday March 04, 2016 @06:19PM (#11227506)
Why the past?

I tried to use Dropbox but it just didn't have what I wanted it to have. So, I find it to be not only replaceable, but awfully inferior to the x+y+z-style solutions.

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Re:Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus... by st3v3r on Friday March 04, 2016 @07:03PM (#11227701)
Which takes time to set up, whereas it's already done for you in Slack.
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Re:Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus... by pmlnr on Sunday March 06, 2016 @06:36PM (#11236162)
Of course it does. But you get to keep your data for yourself.
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Re:Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, will focus... by mdonahoe on Friday March 04, 2016 @04:32PM (#11227008)
Revenue
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