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A Theorie i picked up from a YouTuber called Moon is that Microsoft likely soon will hit the market with a working, actually useable, 'metaverse' trough Teams. Which is something a lot of money is waiting for if plaid right.

Facebook is doomed at this point and no other major 'metaverse' project is in sight.

Maybe this actually is their next big thing?

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Teams doesn't have functional copy pasting. No company has a worse track record on engaging user experiences.

Sure they might be able to make a thing that is technically "metaverse" whatever that even means, but I sincerely doubt they will get anyone besides their enterprise client base actually using it.

They seem to be able to milk never ending money out of low standard enterprise consumers though so who knows, maybe it will flop by and still make them a ton of money

> Which is something a lot of money is waiting for if plaid right.

I keep seeing this asserted as fact, and yet I've never seen any evidence anyone actually wants this garbage.

Right, they could get lots of money by getting teams to work, then work better than slack, maybe then think of metaanything. There's already a large number of people who will not even try teams due to reputation from others. Thinking MS can innovate from there is silly.

Could you post a link to the video? Is there a good summary of what this "metaverse" is and why it's worth a lot of money?

Highly doubtful. Teams is the biggest pile of crap. My company switched to zoom after we complained endlessly.

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