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Microsoft wtf are you doing with Tik Tok?

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  • Woof
    Woof Member Posts: 770
    Nadella was a great CEO hire. He has hit almost everything he has tried out of the park.

    I have no clue what he's trying to do with Tiktok, but he has earned the benefit of the doubt in my opinion.
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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,411
    YellowSnow said:

    Pitchfork51 said:

    I'm a fan of Microsoft. Teams is the shit
    Even old people in my company are down

    Teams is a dream. Great product.
    Uses a lot of bandwidth. Probably all such apps do. But fuck, I can always pony up for more net.
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  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,691
    edited August 2020
    YellowSnow said:

    Pitchfork51 said:

    I'm a fan of Microsoft. Teams is the shit
    Even old people in my company are down

    Teams is a dream. Great product.
    I moved our entire phone system to it as well. Totally worth it.

    Most internal stuff is through teams. All files I moved to SharePoint/teams. Just lovely.

    Probably should put more security in but my owners complain lol so fuck it. Im moving companies anyway in the next couple months
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  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,691
    Woof said:

    Nadella was a great CEO hire. He has hit almost everything he has tried out of the park.

    I have no clue what he's trying to do with Tiktok, but he has earned the benefit of the doubt in my opinion.

    Yep. Love all the moves to open source and cross platform

    .net is bomb.
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  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,691
    PurpleThrobber said:

    YellowSnow said:

    Pitchfork51 said:

    I'm a fan of Microsoft. Teams is the shit
    Even old people in my company are down

    Teams is a dream. Great product.
    Didn't Microsoft leverage Skype into Teams?

    Skype was a MS acquisition quite a few years ago and didn't really do shit for years. Or at least IDNGAF about Skype.

    Yeah. The chat and video stuff is Skype. Instead of buying slack they figured they'd make their own and leverage all their current products on the back end.

    It's still not fully mature but they are cranking out improvements like weekly
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  • godawgst
    godawgst Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 2,614 Swaye's Wigwam
    Wal Mart to tik-tok: "Hey are whole business model is connecting with people and selling them stuff"
    Microsoft to tik-tok: "Hey at least one of our business arms in X-Box is about interactive games being played by people who interact with each other"

    Oracle to tik-tok: "Hold my beer"

    If I was a Oracle shareholder, I would be extrememly concerned about them spending 10's of billion of dollars buying tik-tok. What are they saying about the businesses they are currently in and their ability to compete and win them?
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  • doogie
    doogie Member Posts: 15,072
    Looks like they’re buying the competition.

    Stock price says the shareholders are happy
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  • GreenRiverGatorz
    GreenRiverGatorz Member Posts: 10,168
    godawgst said:

    Wal Mart to tik-tok: "Hey are whole business model is connecting with people and selling them stuff"
    Microsoft to tik-tok: "Hey at least one of our business arms in X-Box is about interactive games being played by people who interact with each other"

    Oracle to tik-tok: "Hold my beer"

    If I was a Oracle shareholder, I would be extrememly concerned about them spending 10's of billion of dollars buying tik-tok. What are they saying about the businesses they are currently in and their ability to compete and win them?

    Data. Data. Data.

    No reorg necessary. Let them keep doing their thing and sit back and monetize every single American child who is old enough to hold an iphone. Better letting Larry have it than Xi.
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  • godawgst
    godawgst Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 2,614 Swaye's Wigwam
    How is tik-tok Oracle's competition?

    Monetizing 30 second videos of alvin and the chipmunks voice overs of peoples pets, kids and cursing each other out would be very tough to monetize I would think.
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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,554 Swaye's Wigwam
    edited September 2020
    godawgst said:

    How is tik-tok Oracle's competition?

    Monetizing 30 second videos of alvin and the chipmunks voice overs of peoples pets, kids and cursing each other out would be very tough to monetize I would think.

    You serious Clark? The advertisement money is huge. If you ever go on TikTok, like every 20 videos is an ad for a big company.

    I’m no expert, but they use a person’s data to target them for certain ads. It’s probably the best way available to market to kids under 21.

    It’s a projection, but TikTok is supposedly going to go from 1 billion in revenue to 6 billion next year. The only real danger is something new comes along and TikTok becomes obsolete.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/elanagross/2020/07/29/a-reported-takeover-bid-values-tiktok-at-50-billion/amp/
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