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[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Microsoft: “Hey Apple, wanna buy some of our stuff?”

Apple: “Sure. What’re you sellin’? Xbox? O365? Exchange?”

Ms: “No No. Bing!”

Ap: “…bing?”

Ms: “Bing! Our search eng-“

Ap: “-Not interested.”

Ms: “C’mon! We’ll throw in uh uh- Teams!”

Ap: “VERY NOT INTERESTED!”

[–] TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I like Teams tbh, lol maybe I’m in the minority though

[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You are. Even MS themselves don’t use it (they use Slack) which tells you just how bad it is

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So uhhhhhhh… they gonna buy it or

[–] rakyat@artemis.camp 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah from the articles it’s more like Microsoft tried to sell Bing to Apple and Apple wasn’t interested

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Ahh I see I see. Trying to de-Google atm so vaguely interested in someone other than microflaccid owning bing.

[–] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I’m glad they didn’t acquire it. I don’t need one more corporation collecting every ounce of data they can on me to sell to advertisers.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Held talks to give them a resounding no? Bing is an awful money sink I wouldn’t want in my portfolio

[–] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

10b in advertising revenue a year doesn’t seem like a money sink to me.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

slap apple's branding on it, shove it in front of every mac, ipad, and iphone user.... and it becomes the biggest thing to happen to online search since google's debut of 'page rank', even if it is the same product underneath.