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What most people don't know about the ouroboros is that every time the creature eats itself it becomes a little bit closer to being a turd (a consequence of its peculiar metabolism) so even though from an inside perspective the system appears to be in a complex mysterious cyclic kind of stasis, from the outside it is just more and more obviously a turd in the shape of a donut.

Teams died for Teams (New)

Teams will die for Copilot somehow.

Teams dying doesn't sound too bad either. Just hoping the next iteration isn't even worse

And MSN was so much better.

Hey, RIM/Blackberry's CEO went to mobile world Congress in 2010, 3 solid YEARS after the iPhone launched, was dominating and defining the smartphone world and said, "we feel touchscreen is not the future of mobile phones" and rolled out another hybrid touch/keyboard model like the 5 they already had

Blackberry was $150/share as of 2009 with the entire world in front of it. It's now worth $3.59/share.

Microsoft has 1 massive disadvantage when it tries to enter new markets.

It has to deal with brutal cutthroat competition from its worst enemy: Microsoft.

Ms internal politics destroy almost all its successes, their politics are why theyve never really been a threat, for every skype there's a teams which cuts them off at the knees lest it cost a division head their chance at a promotion.

IMHO, the pandemic just allowed everyone to see how much better of an experience Zoom had over Skype.

I worked in an office where half of corporate used Skype, and the cooler sub-brands used Zoom. No one in the main corporate office was happy about using Skype. Microsoft had been neglecting it for quite some time.

Did they really? Microsoft championed Teams and its pretty accepted in corporate environments today, especially if they are already on Microsoft.
Afaik, Skype for Business was merged into Teams. Skype for non-business consumers has been virtually dead for longer. The way I see it, Microsoft let go of the brand, the value of which is questionable in this decade. When they bought it, I remember the rumors saying it was because of its voice codec, which probably got used in everything from xbox live to teams in the end.

MS Teams did become the standard in a lot of places now

I couldn't get my head round this at all. Everyone used Skype where I worked, and it seemed hugely popular. By the time COVID happened, I was in another job, and all of a sudden everyone was going mad about this Zoom program. I'd never heard of it, but it just came out of nowhere and everyone on the planet was using it. How on earth Skype fumbled it so hard is absolutely staggering.

My company decided we don't need phones and makes us use Teams for calls. Every day I think about murdering the person who made that decision.

I'll never get over MSN Messenger

It really went downhill from them on.

Skype was only good while it still had a native Linux version.

MSN Messenger was brilliant. At the time I used it, everyone I knew used it. It was the go-to for communication.

Teams is their replacement, viable or not