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Microsoft Considering Building All-In-One App for Search, Shopping, Messaging, and More
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So they are putting the things that they really aren’t very good at into a single app?
Good luck.
Good luck.
given this is Microsoft if they go all in what they will do is take all the individual apps people are reliant on, Teams, outlook, LinkedIn, etc and create one " Microsoft app" which is a deal at first but gets gradually more expensive, then eliminate or end support for the individual apps
I always change mine to Duck Duck Go on set up… 😉
AOL would be a loosely comparable product. A lot of stuff built into one site when it was accessed by dial up. They had most everything of what people thought they needed until the web took over. It is universally true that something doing more than one thing rarely excels in any of the things it does.
I want several apps that each do one or a few things good. Bloated mega apps are so 2000.
AOL, lol. They should have Cortana say Bing for Email notifications. Like "You've Got Mail" did for AOL. For this new super app.
Facebook could have been working on this themselves years ago if they hadn’t been distracted by their “metaverse” project.
Sounds like another piece of Microsoft bloat-ware. Decades ago, computer scientists determined that smaller, more modular software generally tended to allow better quality control. I can only imagine that this proposed monstrosity would require 16-32 GB of memory, and still run like a snail.
I really tried until one day I was looking up information for a specific model of something, and despite searching the exact model number it sent me to a different page for one model number off with a similar but different process that wasn’t working. Took me a while to realize what happened, I went to google and got the correct model number as the first result.
What kind of basic error is that for a search engine to make well over a decade into its existence. It’s just for data gathering and advertising.
But is Google really better anymore? If Apple were to switch to a new default search engine, I doubt most people would notice the difference in results other than the branding.
Isn't this what Elon said he's gonna do with Twitter too? What is this the decade of the super apps? Where's my Silicon Valley innovation? This just feels like a monopoly for me but not for thee.
Plus I'd hate to see that go down for hours/days or get hacked, that'd be a mess if everyone was on it.
Plus I'd hate to see that go down for hours/days or get hacked, that'd be a mess if everyone was on it.
I did for a bit for the Microsoft points as I have an Xbox. I use DDG now (with a little Google), which is still Bing actually.
Don't know how much user privacy will be respected by this new app.
I know a lot of people have regurgitated their hatred of Bing and super apps - and I agree.
But can I take moment to ask: what on EARTH is “better integration of Bing” in outlook and chat even supposed to mean lol.
It’s a search app. At most, maybe you’ll post a search link and maybe (MAYBE) the recipient will be using the same email/messenger and see a preview. That’s about it. What more ~integration~ could you possibly want/need/imagine/fantasise?
But can I take moment to ask: what on EARTH is “better integration of Bing” in outlook and chat even supposed to mean lol.
It’s a search app. At most, maybe you’ll post a search link and maybe (MAYBE) the recipient will be using the same email/messenger and see a preview. That’s about it. What more ~integration~ could you possibly want/need/imagine/fantasise?
He was the CEO when Windows Phone was killed. I remember he had a “mobile first” or something vision in the beginning and then less than six months later we all got fired.
To echo a sentiment I’m thankfully already seeing, I don’t know anyone who wants this. Microsoft is “the company who made my Xbox and conned my company into buying their app suite.” I don’t and won’t use them for any of these services - MSN Messenger was the last time I used them for personal messaging, and the rest is browser functionality.
I’ve been the past few years since googles search results took a nosedive. Not to mention bing is far superior for media searches (all media searches).
Making an mediocre product 4 years late?
Microsoft’s business is business, Google’s business is data, and neither company seems seriously interested in competing outside their core businesses. MS does do a good job with gaming.
