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Kind of interesting given that they passed on Slack for $8B not too long ago... https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/04/source-microsoft-mulled-an-8-billion-bid-for-

• meddlepal 6y ago
  Slack is not strategically interesting. They are already eating the enterprise communication market with Teams. Acquiring Slack would basically be a talent and tech hire nothing more... not worth $8B. Discord gives them something gamers know and love and could be paired with Xbox. Gives them a huge competitive edge against Sony, especially if they intend to build a cross-play centric platform between Windows and Xbox.
• ipsum2 6y ago
  Probably passed on Slack due to anti-trust, since Teams + Slack would be owning a large majority share of group chat.