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That's what Microsoft used to do with everything, they had so much money they could just make incredibly bland versions of everyone else's hit products. I assu
by dageshi 3y ago
That's what Microsoft used to do with everything, they had so much money they could just make incredibly bland versions of everyone else's hit products.
I assume it's because Wall Street was mithering them about why they hadn't invented said hit product and they built their own versions just to shut Wall Street up while the Windows/Office money flowed in.
Bing is a remnant from that time that they never killed.
- chippiewill 3y agoI think Bing is more important than that. Bing is an insurance policy against Google having too much control over the internet. I don't think Microsoft care about market share, they care about having a foothold that they could invest in if they needed to without needing to go from a standing start.
- pwarner 3y agoDid they stop? Teams is still very much a poor copy of Zoom and Slack. Like they can't even make good copies.
- discordance 3y agoSlack maybe, but I doubt they copied anything from Zoom. The Zoom UX is pretty inconsistent and horrific for some very basic things. E.g. Ever tried to get a chat history from a call that's finished with Zoom?