"Microsoft (R) Passport Live TikTok.NET 2020 Datacenter Edition, part of the Windows Live Social Dynamics suite"

This reminds me of this old classic.

Microsoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k

Now with Containers!

Assume they'll be a Visual Studio 2019 TikTok Xamarin project template.

Whatever it takes to bring back Microsoft Bob.

>This seems like a dumb move, why would MS want to get tied up in the horrors of social media when they have such a profitable empire.

They bought LinkedIn, which increasingly resembles a niche social media for professionals, all the way down to a news feed that is increasingly filled with motivational junk

Then there's Github, which used to advertise itself as "social coding".

Microsoft has done plenty already to get their foot in the door of social media.

would Minecraft almost fit into that as well? At least from the sense of buying an existing community.

If you squint, you can see the Minecraft fit: along with the Xbox side, it's quasi "coding" or "developing" for kids. Basically, you hook the kids who are interested in developing super, duper early.

Maybe, though to be fair Microsoft is far from being a newcomer to the gaming scene. Even before the Xbox, they were putting their name on games.

If they can have TikTok run on Azure, it'll improve Azure by leaps and bounds similar to Netflix running on AWS. I think it's a brilliant move to buy TikTok. I don't see what else they could potentially buy right now.

> This seems like a dumb move, why would MS want to get tied up in the horrors of social media when they have such a profitable empire.

Because it's a business operating after Wall Street decided that perpetual growth was not only a realistic expectation for stocks, but a mandatory one as well.

> This seems like a dumb move, why would MS want to get tied up in the horrors of social media when they have such a profitable empire.

First idea: Facebook's earnings over the past few years.

If this is true, it makes sense not from what MS is today but what they want to become.

Remember the I'm a Mac I'm a PC ads? MS was branded as uncool, boring and not creative and that mindset probably influenced a lot of Apple's adoption in the mobile space.

Microsoft wants to go where the money is and get the mindshare of younger generations who will have money to spend a few years down the line.

I agree it doesn't make any sense ...

They just sold their Mixer platform to Facebook.

If they can't manage correctly a game streaming platform, I don't see them be able to take on a video social network one.

BingBong

To phase out TikTok usernames/handles and force users to move to Live/Outlook emails e.g [email protected]. Then sit back and gleefully marvel at their own accomplishment.

> Hopefully it will be rebranded MikMok or ZuneZok

Made my day ... thank you

Because they have cash to burn and having a major social media platform is trendy. /s

Data, Data, Data and Data

It'll be WinWok.