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Why is Microsoft using Discord and not Teams?
by petepete 8mo ago
Why is Microsoft using Discord and not Teams?
- Maken 8mo agoWhy would anyone use Teams?
- DrBazza 8mo agoBecause it comes 'free' with an Office365 subscription. Embrace (<<you are here), extend, extinguish. It's usually 'management'. The same management that won't pay for developer tools (including Slack) because 'why do you need that when you can do 95% of your work in VSCode?' It's also usually the same sort of management that can do 95% of their documents in... VSCode and markdown. Or LibreOffice.
- kibwen 8mo agoMicrosoft products are only free if your time has no value.
- jimnotgym 8mo agoHaving been in the position, on a corporate Active Directory network it very much easier to roll out Teams than anything else. It works fine at the kind of internal video calls that companies spend their days on.
- wolvoleo 8mo agoYeah or 80% even so they can sound cool and quote the pateto principle. Which isn't meant as an excuse to not bother to do the 20% at all but they use it as such.
- samgranieri 8mo agoI am for my day job. I still mourn slack and gsuite.
- Configure0251 8mo agoI don't think M$ does much dogfooding. The kinds of issues I encounter being forced to use their pan-awfuly for work makes me very skeptical of this idea.
- yxhuvud 8mo agoIt is fairly ok for meetings and calendar integration. It is dogshit at chatting, however.
- gspr 8mo ago> It is fairly ok for meetings … when it works. And if you never have to change camera or microphone settings. > and calendar integration. The little notification that pops up telling you your meeting is about to start based on your calendar? The one you better not click in the first 5 or so seconds it's there, because then you'll end up with an error message that tells you absolutely nothing, have to go back to the chat, and try again? No, it's not usable. For anything.
- Hamuko 8mo agoDogfooding only works when the dog food is edible.
- dessimus 8mo agoSo non-employees join and provide free support to other users without having to pay them.
- cardiffspaceman 8mo agoStarting in the CompuServe era, and ending in about 2001, I was a voluntary member of the MVPs for Windows programming. You would get swag, including a full MSDN subscription. My reason for joining this and for otherwise posting hopefully helpfully on forums was to lower the barrier to Windows programming. I was idle vis-à-vis this by about 1999, and was excluded from the benefits as a result. Then I posted on several threads within rec.autos.bmw and I got an extra year or two of benefits.
- upmind 8mo agoDiscord really needs some enterprise plan. I've been saying this for years, they can take down slack.
- withinboredom 8mo agoDiscord is owned by Microsoft IIRC.
- Hamuko 8mo agoIt's not. It's an independent company, that's most likely going to IPO soon. Microsoft was reported to be in talks to acquire Discord at some point, but that never materialised.
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- yoyohello13 8mo agoMicrosoft employees largely use Macs, so no surprise.
- jeltz 8mo agoAll Microsoft employees I know either run Linux or Mac.
- hinkley 8mo agoSame reason MS used a Perforce fork instead of Source Safe. Because the dogfood tastes terrible. One of the executives at the late, great, Sun Microsystems once dunked hard on Microsoft by saying, "At Sun we don't make dogfood. We prefer to refer to it as, 'flying our own airplanes.'"