Technology

MSN messenger died for Skype

Skype died for Teams

We're not on a great trajectory here

(Yes Lync too, but everyone was pleased about that)

skype was way ahead of his time. The quality was top notch. MS fucked by changing the architecture from decentralized to centralized in windows servers - this fucked up the calls quality and it created an opportunity window for whatsapp, viber, etc...

MS turned skype to shit.

great, now do teams.

nobody should have to use that ugly useless piece of shit for anything.

It was dead to me after microsoft bought it.

On one hand, having been forced to use Skype, I’m happy to see it gone. On the other hand, they somehow made it worse and called it Teams.

Truthfully I loved Skype until Microsoft bought it.

I fell out of contact with a lot of people when they shuttered MSN messenger for Skype, so not sad to see it go.

I'm 39. So I've been around Skype since it came out back in 2003. Since then, 22 years later I didn't use it a single time. Never downloaded the program, app or accessed the webpage. 🤷

I remember the "old" Skype, which was essential for keeping in touch with my siblings before we got cell phones. Once I got a phone, it was the end of Skype until ~2014 when I got a job where Skype for business was available. I still didn't use it because that application would sometimes crash if you just jiggled the mouse. It became a running joke at my workplace.

Clock into work, Skype crashed.

Go to lunch, Skype crashed.

Ran out of TP at home. You guessed it. Skype crashed.

Somebody send a gift basket to the Skype CEO, he's not doing so well.

I want to put Skype's corpse on a banner and wave it around to all the software that's currently undergoing enshittification.

It’s sad… Skype saved my butt when I was stuck in Peru and needed to call for help in my home country. I had found out 1-800 lines didn’t use call credits

I find it funny Microsoft gave me a survey on my work PC asking about how I'm enjoying its products (I laughed in Linux, "how do you like windows customizablity" let me go off about KDE lol)

But back to the subject. Literally everything they work on seems to turn to shit

I wonder what kind of survey feedback are they usually getting? "Oh, Skypes cool but I really like Teams"

Can I guess that the American amoral capitalist company won’t have transferred my Skype credit?

Story of the times, have a good thing then break it so you can replace it with a shitier thing. Then have the competition eat your lunch by making a slightly less shitty thing.

I found my physical "skipe" phone last week, dang it we could have had a bad bitch. But no, now we have fucking teams.

Wait, Skype was still around? I thought it shutdown a few years back

Is Microsoft planning to release a viable replacement at some point?

I never really used Skype as a VOIP platform, but it was a great tool for many years for calling international phone numbers affordably. I'm sure it helped many people saving a lot of money calling their friends and relatives. For that I remember it somewhat fondly.

For us plebs. Government (US) will still use it for years to come.