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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by NanoYohaneTSU on Monday November 20, 2023 @10:44AM (#38349619)
The Skype purchase was good for itself. It lead to Teams, which is dominating.
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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by SoftTalker on Monday November 20, 2023 @12:48PM (#38351430)
The only people I know using Teams are the ones who are forced to by management fiat. I guess that's dominating, but not really in a positive way.
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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by novia on Monday November 20, 2023 @01:00PM (#38351658)
Teams is dominating only because they bundle it with their other services. In my personal opinion, as someone who loved Skype before Microsoft got involved with it, Teams is complete trash, and impossible to work with in a business environment.
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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by ryanbrunner on Monday November 20, 2023 @01:17PM (#38351965)
> Teams is dominating only because they bundle it with their other services.

This is a win from Microsoft's perspective. They don't have to have the best group messenger around, but having a significant office product being dominated by another company would be a massive risk to Microsoft, and Teams has prevented that.

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by andai on Monday November 20, 2023 @01:35PM (#38352262)
So killing Skype was actually their goal? :(
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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by smcleod on Monday November 20, 2023 @02:35PM (#38353287)
And bad for users. Skype went downhill fast and Teams… well we all know what that’s like.
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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by mensetmanusman on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:16PM (#38353987)
Seconded, teams winning is horrible for users in the long run (no competition allowed), but great for MS and IT managers.
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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by Lammy on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:45PM (#38354441)
It was also good for the security state https://www.theregister.com/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_f...
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