No one has observed that the talks were between Discord and the head of the Microsoft Xbox division. Xbox can see the direct relevance of the Discord users to

No one has observed that the talks were between Discord and the head of the Microsoft Xbox division. Xbox can see the direct relevance of the Discord users to its own. Integrating Discord into its ecosystem allows for synergies directly. This is not a Teams/Skype/Lync replacement. The underlying technology might get used eventually, but that would be invisible to the userbases.