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Microsoft Confirms Plan to Acquire TikTok, Trump Gives Consent
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I didn't think I'd ever be cheering on Microsoft but it's about damn time that Zuckerberg & Co. got some real competition. Facebook managed to avert extinction because they bought their emerging competition at Instagram, and did it again with WhatsApp. They failed with TikTok which already has a larger key demographic than Facebook.
I think he should ban it completely until China fixes its Muslim problem. And he should hold a no questions presser to specify it, that would force the media and all the tiktok people to recognize an active human atrocity being committed right now by the CCP. He could also mention all these dirt bag US entities like the NBA and Blizzard who are eager to put on humanitarian blinders while they guzzle CCP juice.
The phone rings and you answer. It is Steve Ballmers voice on the phone "I know what you're wearing".
Facebook's strategy is copy and kill. Microsoft's strategy is buy and kill.
Pardon me? We used Skype for projects all the time, met with contractors all over the world and our main office in Europe. Providers in Asia also joined us through Skype. And when needing to make regular phone calls you could easily add funds and call away... I don’t see your point tbh.
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I do, for both pleasure and business. Thanks for asking.
"Trump gives consent"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
I never thought I'd see the words "Trump" and "consent" in the same sentence.
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You beat me to it haha
Absolutely this.
But with the ability to side load TikTok on an Android device, how is it possible to ban an app?
I can see Apple's walled garden; if they remove it from the App Store.
But for Android, no such limitation exists.
Even if he could convince the ISP's to ban the servers; there are proxies and VPN.
US is probably not the country who should champion the Muslim issue. US companies would be banned long time ago if Muslim issue can be used as a reason for punishing companies. Plus, US media reports on China related issue are pretty much disinformation campaign.
We had Vine. We let it die. So we deserve TikTok.
You're pardoned.
Perhaps it's a US thing...perhaps it was different in the EU since that's where Skype originated, but all of the US companies I've ever worked with (and there have been many) have used an actual enterprise provider of conferencing, whether that be WebEx, GoToMeeting, AT&T, etc. Gartner didn't even list Skype in their Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing report in 2010, the year before Microsoft bought them.
The point I was trying to make is, many of your complaints would hold more validity if Skype were considered a premium enterprise product, but clearly Microsoft saw it as a consumer product. Hence the ads and merging it with their consumer identity platform. But I do agree that Microsoft just let Skype kind of rot away the last few years. And it's clear that Teams will be replacing it now that they have released a personal version.
Steve who?
Ads were gonna happen eventually no matter what. Gotta start paying for the servers that run the service.
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Teams notifications sometimes work and sometimes just don’t bother to tell you about a chat.
Read receipts work about 5% of the time. Usually a person has replied to your chat and the app still doesn’t acknowledge your initial message was read.
Unless Microsoft fixes these issues, teams for non business use is doa
This is nonsense.Any govt can dictate what it’s personnel does.
Worst excuse ever. No excuse for swallowing this kind of bs story.
Who is “we” ? You think you are M$? You think you are USG? You think they think “we” with you in their mind? Seriously?
I worked for DoD and currently the Department of Veterans Affairs at a giant VA hospital, Skype was what we used for conference calls as well.
We did however just in the past few weeks switched to Microsoft teams though.
Anyone who has lived in a third world dictatorship understands what this is:
“.....Responding to a handful of questions on Monday afternoon, Trump said the social media platform Tik Tok must be sold to Microsoft or another company by 15 September or it will be shut down in US. He also said the Treasury should receive payment as a portion of any deal between the social media platform and a US company......”
If you believe in democracy and the rule of law, and are against corruption, you should be outraged.
“.....Responding to a handful of questions on Monday afternoon, Trump said the social media platform Tik Tok must be sold to Microsoft or another company by 15 September or it will be shut down in US. He also said the Treasury should receive payment as a portion of any deal between the social media platform and a US company......”
If you believe in democracy and the rule of law, and are against corruption, you should be outraged.
LOL, this ain't happening. It's just Trump talking **** he's has no clue about as usual.