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[–] RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My feelings on this:

You wish now that our places had been exchanged, that I had died and Skype had lived~~___~~

[–] Gloria@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

They are not killing Skype, they just now bury the corpse. Skype died by malnutrion and bad parenting by MS a decade ago.

[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I remember when Skype first came out, when I was a teenager. I called a random guy in Japan; he was learning English, I wanted to learn Japanese (as is tradition for teenage anime fans). It was a very kind series of calls, and we talked a bit about Japanese culture too. He taught me, rather patiently, how to pronounce certain basic words properly.
It's a shame the service was treated like it has been. There was great potential in connecting people.

Wherever you are, random Japanese dude I forgot the name of, konbanwa!!

Good! They could have cornered the market during Covid, but fumbled the ball.

[–] myusernameis@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago
[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The bigger headline is "Skype hasn't been dead this whole time"

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

One of my clients is a small company that has been running with seven staff working from home, scattered around the globe, mostly rural. Since 1999. Everything has been held together by skype: chat, video, audio.

Should be interesting finding the right new workflow!

[–] Obelix@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's amazing how they fumbled this. There was a time when video calls were Skype. Everybody was using Skype, everybody had it installed, people used it to chat and then ... something happened. Microsoft did nothing. Or did the wrong kind of stuff. Software started to suck. And when the pandemic came, Zoom took over and nobody even tried to use Skype. That really, really are some bad business decisions there

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It didn't "start to suck", they intentionally transitioned it, from old lean clients working over p2p usable in unbelievably bad connectivity conditions, to something server-based and fat laggy clients with typical Microsoft quality. They they turned off authentication servers for the old Skype.

If the old Skype were still functional today, nobody would say it sucks. OK, maybe no stickers and such.

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They just reskinned it and slapped irc in it and called it teams

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It also cobbled in groups from Exchange, and the Collab site from SharePoint. Its pretty much three raccoons in a trench-coat.