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petepete | on: Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on its Discord, then locks the server
Why is Microsoft using Discord and not Teams?
dessimus | parent | next
So non-employees join and provide free support to other users without having to pay them.
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Maken | parent | next
Why would anyone use Teams?
DrBazza | root | 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 | root | parent | next
Microsoft products are only free if your time has no value.
jimnotgym | root | parent
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.
Configure0251 | root | parent | 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.
samgranieri | root | parent | next
I am for my day job. I still mourn slack and gsuite.
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Hamuko | parent | next
Dogfooding only works when the dog food is edible.
yoyohello13 | parent | next
Microsoft employees largely use Macs, so no surprise.
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withinboredom | parent
Discord is owned by Microsoft IIRC.
Hamuko | root | 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.