I fell out of contact with a lot of people when they shuttered MSN messenger for Skype, so not sad to see it go.
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Somebody send a gift basket to the Skype CEO, he's not doing so well.
I see Brennan, I upvote. Love the guy, his DnD campaigns are a blast!
Still find it absolutely wild that Microsoft fucked up during the global pandemic and allowed Zoom to slide right into the communications spot Skype should have been.
Fucking idiots.
IMHO, the pandemic just allowed everyone to see how much better of an experience Zoom had over Skype.
I worked in an office where half of corporate used Skype, and the cooler sub-brands used Zoom. No one in the main corporate office was happy about using Skype. Microsoft had been neglecting it for quite some time.
Microsoft had been neglecting it for quite some time.
You're right but that's why they're idiots 😄
Yeah, right before the pandemic it was becoming clear that Skype was in Keep The Lights On mode, and MS wanted to funnel all of those users into Teams. But Teams also sucked.
It’s a lot better than it used to be, but it still takes MS an ungodly amount of time to build basic features that have been in Slack / Zoom for a decade… and MS is one of the biggest companies in the world.
how much better of an experience Zoom had over Skype.
I hate Zoom
Microsoft has 1 massive disadvantage when it tries to enter new markets.
It has to deal with brutal cutthroat competition from its worst enemy: Microsoft.
Ms internal politics destroy almost all its successes, their politics are why theyve never really been a threat, for every skype there's a teams which cuts them off at the knees lest it cost a division head their chance at a promotion.
I personally blame stack ranking, invented by Jack Welch to justify cutting 20% of the company.
If you want to get mad, the Behind the Bastards episode on him explains why corporate America is what it is today.
I heard about that, some call it the “wasted decade” at MS. Top engineers refused to work together due to the stack ranking, not wanting draw the short end of the stick in the evaluations, when compared to each other.
A company I worked at 10 years ago also dabbled with it a bit, luckily not seriously. It was a consultancy firm who hired top graduates from prestige universities, so it made even less sense. Dude, nobody is agerage or below here, you hire the best people after grilling them in interviews and a whole day assessment center. The bell curve just doesn’t make sense
Hey, RIM/Blackberry's CEO went to mobile world Congress in 2010, 3 solid YEARS after the iPhone launched, was dominating and defining the smartphone world and said, "we feel touchscreen is not the future of mobile phones" and rolled out another hybrid touch/keyboard model like the 5 they already had
Blackberry was $150/share as of 2009 with the entire world in front of it. It's now worth $3.59/share.
I think he felt right, but at the same time Blackberry wasn't properly marketed.
And maybe having a touchscreen option would be good enough.
to be fair i miss physical keyboards on phones. i wish we still had space for it.
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Blackberry and Nokia were so slow to react to the iPhone, it was painful to watch.
Their stuff was better, but disadvantaged by public perception. A perfect storm one can say.
And then, to bring us full circle to OP, Microsoft made it's strategic acquisition of Nokia long after they had squandered enviable market share to Apple and Google 😂 https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/25/11766540/microsoft-nokia-acquisition-costs
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MS Teams did become the standard in a lot of places now
I have to use Teams for work and it is absolute dog shit.
I never said it wasn't dogshit, but Microsoft did win the corporate messenger race
Why? My experience is the opposite.
Try searching for something that was said in a chat last month.
Then follow what was said in reply.
Now as an admin, try to delete an image someone has shared with the team.
Or control who can create new teams.
But my biggest pet peeve, which annoys me literally every day, is how it shows a notification for a new message in your task bar.
You click on it, Teams opens how you left it, and you read the message.
But the notification stays. To get rid of it, you have to click on a different chat, then back on the one where the message was posted.
I agree, those ARE annoying things. But overall functionality is pretty solid IMO.
I just don't understand how an app that's primarily a chat can fail at notifications and searching through the chat log.
great, now do teams.
nobody should have to use that ugly useless piece of shit for anything.
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.
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.
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.
Can I guess that the American amoral capitalist company won’t have transferred my Skype credit?
I had like $9.22 remaining credit from some international calls back in 2002 I was going to use...eventually.
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)
Teams died for Teams (New)
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.
Teams will die for Copilot somehow.
Teams
New Teams
Teams (New)
Teams with Copilot
Copilot Teams
They can all coexist in your desktop, just like outlook
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".
You missed Teams 365
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It was dead to me after microsoft bought it.
It really went downhill from them on.
Skype was only good while it still had a native Linux version.
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
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