Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B

Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by ernesth on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:52AM (#26552225)

Not sure if it's a counterpoint or an agreement, but Communication softwares are already not interoperable with themselves:

* In discord, you need to install the "native" client to be able to share your screen or see other peoples' shared screen. The web client cannot.

* Microsoft Teams in Firefox does not do Calls; "Native" Microsoft Teams in Linux cannot "raise hand"; Microsoft Teams in Chromium on Linux cannot do the background thing.

Some of those may have evolved, I have only used Teams in chromium recently.

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by Sander_Marechal on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:58AM (#26552639)

Lots of software does not do calls on Firefox because they rely on a broken alpha WebRTC implementation in chromium and don't work with the proper implementation in Firefox. Chromium is the new IE6 (and Safari is IE5.5)

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