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ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger and IRC were all entrenched at different points in time. To give a parallel, so were Teamspeak, Ventrillo, Mumble, Raidcall, Xfire or w
by antisthenes 10y ago
ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger and IRC were all entrenched at different points in time.
To give a parallel, so were Teamspeak, Ventrillo, Mumble, Raidcall, Xfire or whatever have you (for gaming at least).
Chat rooms and VOIP solutions are commodities and have been for a decade or more. Sure, some companies do some more value-add than others in terms of service and support, but at the end of the day it's still a commodity and no amount of rationalization and wishful thinking will change that.
Which is why their mimicking of Apple ad seems condescending and arrogant. Personal PCs were at the top of the technological know-how in the early 80s. Glorified chat rooms haven't been new or high tech for 20 years (IRC is how old?). In fact the only innovation in recent years seems to be end-to-end encryption, which Microsoft seems to be on board with.