"Bit Company is about to launch free instant messaging software. Why are they doing this?"
Although Gates was asking Microsoft's executives, he himself was quite puzzled.
Free software? What could it bring to the company? Gates was really baffled.
"Maybe there's some kind of value-added service," Executive Director Ballmer speculated.
"But the software itself is free, meaning that the instant messaging service is free.
Besides that, what other value-added services could there be? Group chat? Voice calls?"
Steve from the marketing department, brainstorming, was equally surprised by Bit's decision.
"That's unlikely," Gates shook his head. "If that were the case, it would conflict with their Teams product."
According to the press release from Bit, its core feature seems to be just instant messaging.
Avoiding features similar to Teams—like file transfer and voice calls—is a good decision, or else these two services would contradict each other.
