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Skype was shut down for good today (www.washingtonpost.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by comador@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 179 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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)

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 69 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

What most people don't know about the ouroboros is that every time the creature eats itself it becomes a little bit closer to being a turd (a consequence of its peculiar metabolism) so even though from an inside perspective the system appears to be in a complex mysterious cyclic kind of stasis, from the outside it is just more and more obviously a turd in the shape of a donut.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 52 points 2 months ago

Teams died for Teams (New)

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Teams will die for Copilot somehow.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 52 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Teams

New Teams

Teams (New)

Teams with Copilot

Copilot Teams

[–] eth0slash0@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 months ago

You missed Teams 365

[–] Spider2013@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They can all coexist in your desktop, just like outlook

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[–] MicrowavedTea 21 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Teams dying doesn't sound too bad either. Just hoping the next iteration isn't even worse

[–] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

Given M$'s track record, it definitely will be worse...

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[–] VisionScout@lemmy.wtf 64 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] some_random_nick@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'll never get over MSN Messenger

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 61 points 2 months ago (2 children)

great, now do teams.

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

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My company decided we don't need phones and makes us use Teams for calls. Every day I think about murdering the person who made that decision.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

Same here. I made my bed with it though.

I have a "work phone". it sits at my desk. I'll answer it when I'm there, otherwise I don't get called.

I can't (pronounced won't) install any work shit on my personal phone because I run e/os and it isn't compatible with their policies. 🤷 oopsies.

fuck em. I've been giving them 4 hours a day for months now, after giving them over a decade of 15-18 hour days.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 9 points 2 months ago

My company used to have Slack and forced this abomination upon us. At least now I can plausibly pretend not to have seen people’s messages.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 50 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was dead to me after microsoft bought it.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It really went downhill from them on.

Skype was only good while it still had a native Linux version.

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[–] thejml@lemm.ee 37 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] based_raven@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago

MSN Messenger was brilliant. At the time I used it, everyone I knew used it. It was the go-to for communication.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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. 🤷

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

I used Skype a couple of times - I was talking to someone overseas. This was pre zoom. It’s interesting that they dropped the ball, they could have been zoom.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] ziltoid101@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago

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

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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"

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[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] chrischryse@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 11 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

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