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Skype was shut down for good today (www.washingtonpost.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by comador@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] superkret 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

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

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[–] farcaster@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] M154nthr0p3@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago
[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Huh?
I thought Skype was still a widely used thing.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day ago

microsoft pissed away all the brand recognition it ever had and turned it into teams. in 2020 it was poised to be the most important technology there was, but having received no updates in years, it was effectively already dead

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I haven't heard of anyone using Skype in over a decade.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 9 points 2 days ago
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and when are the estonian nationalist gonna luigi em?

[–] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And nothing of continued/existing value was lost... 🤷‍♂️ 🙄

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago

Nobody noticed

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