Somebody send a gift basket to the Skype CEO, he's not doing so well.
this post was submitted on 05 May 2025
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I see Brennan, I upvote. Love the guy, his DnD campaigns are a blast!
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.
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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.
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.
Please don't confuse skype4biz and Skype. The former only borrows the name, and shares a lot of code with teams, Lync and probably netmeeting.
The latter will be missed.
Skype for business was truly awful.
A new convo instance every time I messaged the same person after a few hours of not, taking upwards of 10 minutes to sync convos between my laptop and my phone if it did at all, and the shittiest voice/video functions ever? Glad that shit died, teams seems amazing in comparison.
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Rip to a real one
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"
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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.
Is Microsoft planning to release a viable replacement at some point?
Teams is their replacement, viable or not
Teams helps cooperation by uniting everyone in their shared hatred for Teams.
There is no stronger bond of friendship than a common enemy.
Frank Frankfort Moore
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