I have always wondered if any company uses IRC?
Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
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Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
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Sure, nobody said this doesn't work out well for the founders. Just the product, and its userbase, and future business.
I wonder if and when the society will finally develop an immune response to this business pattern: a) get a large amount of people to tie their lives/businesses to a service you provide, b) sell out to a bigger fish, leaving these users high and dry.
What would that response be, other than refusing to use anything with mainstream adoption?
Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#433Anyone read the press release? Salesforce wants to use Slack as an input device driver. Imagine slacking with your customers, colleagues etc... need to create a DB entry? Slack command. Need to schedule some follow up, slack command. Need to track a bunch of tasks? Slack-Force integrations. I see an AI bot here to help get that data into Salesforce. To quote: "Together, Salesforce and Slack will shape the future of e…
> It's better than email Is it? I regret every time I have to search for some information in past chats. Even M$ Outlook is better.
Oh yes in that sense worse. In fact both are terrible and there is a lot of room to improve.
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> if you already use Office, why not Azure? My gut reasoning is that cloud infrastructure is not the same product as office productivity and the two use cases are not the same, the purchasing decisions aren't made by the same people (except at scale, I guess, I'll concede that), and the boots on the ground building shit in the cloud take the path of least resistance where that logic would never apply. I don't really…
First, you start with Office 365, then you put some stuff on One Drive, you add a little list in SharePoint online, then you use Teams to access all that. You move to Azure AD. And then you want to automate or do some nice charts, and there is Power platform just around the corner... and then you find yourself limited so you go Azure Functions... and then start one VM on Azure...
The jump from Power Platform to Azure Functions and a VM is likely not to be the same people
Power Platform is for "power users" to be able to "no code" things, this is targeted (MS Claims) as non-IT Users, as is the Rest of the office/Microsoft 365 stack
Azure (including Azure AD) however is targeted at IT Staff, dev's,sysadmins, etc. There is a clear line in how the tools are marketed, deployed, licensed and utilized
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Does it? It's not a good comparison. All of those are brand names for a product still offered with continuity of teams between them and while some of the brand names signaled breaks in compatibility for developers using the services, it was still ostensibly the same product. Whereas most of these Google projects were ostensibly entirely different teams with different project goals building externally similar projects…
So for a 1:1 comparison, let's consider the apps that MS has made in this space over the years. Ignoring the semi-annual rebrands and the MS chat products that were killed from before Google even existed (there's surprisingly many!), there's at least: 1. MSN Messenger (+ rebrands) 2. Skype 3. NetMeeting 4. Lync (+ rebrands) 5. Yammer 6. Kaizala 7. Teams 8. SharedView 9. Windows Meeting Space 10. Groove 11. Qik I trie…
I want to see a whole organisation on Microsoft Comic Chat.
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Doesn't amazon have relatively good customer support for retail? Or are you specifically talking about AWS here?
Not in my experience, at least in the relatively-rare occasions where exceptions happen. I had an order which Amazon claimed to have been delivered but wasn't, and it took several days and multiple interactions to resolve. Just figuring out a way to talk to a human felt like an ARG.
Maybe it was because you were trying to talk to a human in the first place?
when this happened to me, I simply filed the claim online and they resolved it, no need to talk to anyone
Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#437Earlier quoted context omitted.
So for a 1:1 comparison, let's consider the apps that MS has made in this space over the years. Ignoring the semi-annual rebrands and the MS chat products that were killed from before Google even existed (there's surprisingly many!), there's at least: 1. MSN Messenger (+ rebrands) 2. Skype 3. NetMeeting 4. Lync (+ rebrands) 5. Yammer 6. Kaizala 7. Teams 8. SharedView 9. Windows Meeting Space 10. Groove 11. Qik I trie…
I want to see a whole organisation on Microsoft Comic Chat.
Would it be better or worse than doing it on Microsoft V-Chat?
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I have no idea what that is and I've used GSuite for decades.
gsuite hasn't existed for decades.
I don't think that's right, it's called Workplace now and I don't think it's been that long since they changed up the name. https://workspace.google.com/
Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#439I have always wondered if any company uses IRC?
Yelp did until a few years ago
Re: Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
#440They started out trying to make an MMO, ended up making Flickr instead. Then they tried making another MMO, but ended up making Slack instead. I really hope they get cracking on another MMO soon.
Or try designing a really great office collaboration suite and end up accidentally making a killer game.
Do games created in excel count?
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