Microsoft fumbled Skype so fucking bad. You remember people used to say "I'll Skype you!" that's how big of a brand they had going internet telephony was literally synonymous with their brand and THEY FUCKED IT UP SO FUCKING BAD!!!
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Skype has officially shut down after 22 years
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Deranged.
I will Skype you!
Normal, wholesome, good.
I will Outlook Meetings CoPilot Teams Messenger you!
The world is ending.
Between that and all the new copilot/agent stuff I wonder how much of MS's dataservice is actually doing things its clients asked it to do
Visio my beloved, look what they did to you...
Thus I must continue to writhe in the corpse of my once beloved Visio, enduring the knowledge of what once was, and what will never be again.
Nobody tries to integrate their sign-in pages with microsoft for a reason.
Nobody wants to use Teams at home that has to use it at work. Nobody.
With Discord's looming IPO, I'dve honestly likely migrated back to Skype when Discord gets enshittified.
No, I don't remember that at all. I remember being the only person in town who used Skype. Had it on my PSP and we made prank calls with it on my PC back in the day.
Skype was bought by eBay who planned to IPO them but then sold to Microsoft who developed it into an insanely successful VoIP product before neglecting it to the point of obsolescence and then shutting it down.
In the business setting only lmao. Microsoft Lync is now Skype for Business! Wait no now it’s Teams!
I had to use it at my last job for communicating with one of our customers, because they used it. I'm not a huge fan of Teams, but JFC, anything is better than WebEx.
Too good for this world.