Why is Microsoft using Discord and not Teams?

dessimus 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So non-employees join and provide free support to other users without having to pay them.

	▲	cardiffspaceman 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Starting 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.

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Maken 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why would anyone use Teams?

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DrBazza 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Because 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 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Microsoft products are only free if your time has no value.
	▲	jimnotgym 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Having 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.

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Configure0251 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I 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.

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yxhuvud 19 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It is fairly ok for meetings and calendar integration.

It is dogshit at chatting, however.

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samgranieri 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I am for my day job. I still mourn slack and gsuite.

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Hamuko 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Dogfooding only works when the dog food is edible.

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yoyohello13 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Microsoft employees largely use Macs, so no surprise.

	▲	jeltz 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		All Microsoft employees I know either run Linux or Mac.

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withinboredom 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Discord is owned by Microsoft IIRC.

	▲	Hamuko 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It'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.