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Re:The Day Windows Died by LorenDB on Monday April 03, 2023 @09:55AM (#35423606)
I would imagine that fifteen years ago, nobody needed a document editor embedded in a chat app. In fact, today we don't need a document editor embedded in a chat app. As far as "automated transcriptions", they weren't necessarily practical fifteen years ago. And cross platform? Hello? There have been IRC clients for every platform since forever. And Matrix clients. And many other clients.

In short: Teams is not all that revolutionary or even great.

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Re:The Day Windows Died by jodrellblank on Monday April 03, 2023 @12:40PM (#35426942)
> "And cross platform? Hello? There have been IRC clients for every platform since forever."

Where's the fifteen year old IRC client which does hardware accelerated video chat from a web browser?

> "In fact, today we don't need a document editor embedded in a chat app."

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Except we have evidence: given a choice of Teams or IRC, businesses choose Teams.

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Re:The Day Windows Died by egeozcan on Monday April 03, 2023 @01:18PM (#35427660)
Businesses chose Teams not because of anything listed in this thread of comments. Businesses also didn't choose IE because it's fast and had a lot of features.

People chose Skype because it was fast and it just worked. It stopped being fast and people moved over.

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