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Skype was shut down for good today (www.washingtonpost.com)
submitted 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) by comador@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 166 points 19 hours ago (6 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)

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 44 points 16 hours ago

Teams died for Teams (New)

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 63 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 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.

[–] inbeesee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Is this real lore or is this meme

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 46 minutes ago)

I am not sure I remember anymore, I have eaten my tail one too many times.

I don't think this is a direct meaning of the metaphor, though any metaphor of endlessly repeating cycles can be placed in a rhetorical framework where it represents enshittification so I am sure I am not the first person to add or tweak the metaphor with that context.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 35 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Teams will die for Copilot somehow.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 50 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Teams

New Teams

Teams (New)

Teams with Copilot

Copilot Teams

[–] Spider2013@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They can all coexist in your desktop, just like outlook

[–] superkret 8 points 9 hours ago

By "coexist" we mean being installed side by side with barely distinguishable icons, and when you try to log into the wrong one with the wrong type of Microsoft account (where the login mask looks exactly the same), it throws a helpful error message saying "this account does not exist".

[–] eth0slash0@sh.itjust.works 28 points 18 hours ago

You missed Teams 365

[–] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 22 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] superkret 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Next iteration will be "Copilot for Teams".
Whenever you get a message, Copilot will auto-send an answer unless you click "no" in a popup without window decorations, showing a timer.
On Windows Pro, you can disable this with a registry key, but that resets with feature updates.

[–] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 2 points 49 minutes ago (1 children)

You know, if copilot also joins morning meetings for you while you sleep, that's a deal I'm willing to make

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 minutes ago

How long until it degenerates to a bunch of Copilots exchanging gibberish, and people forgetting there was ever a real meeting? :D

[–] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 27 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Next iteration will be MSN Messenger

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 20 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Spider2013@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Can imagine your boss nudging you? Lol

[–] superkret 2 points 9 hours ago

I don't want to.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 3 points 16 hours ago

Did it die, though? Last time I had to use windows for work (shudder) the Teams app process name was lync.exe. Or was it Skype?

Either way, shit’s still around.