Australian newspaper 1st April Bill said, page-13

Microsofts Shopping Trolley

Yammer: Enterprise Social Networking for business designed to improve productivity.

SharePoint: Team Collaboration software tool.

Lync: Instant Messaging, Communication and File Sharing tool.

Skype: Free Skype-to-Skype video and voice calls and send instant messages to friends and family around the world.

At face value Thred appears nestled well within the space that MS have been investing heavily.
With a possible content partnership with Fairfax Media and 3rd party farm-ins (pardon the mining terminology) with the likes of Uber, Ticketmaster & others we may indeed be seeing the birth of some variant of a horned mythical animal. It might be a question of how many horns it grows.

Steady as she goes..

Boomington Burst.