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korthrun@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
They pivoted to Skype. Saved you a click and reading about 6000 words.
auzy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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korthrun@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
They pivoted to Skype. Saved you a click and reading about 6000 words.
Yep. I hate clickbait. You’re a legend
orclev@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Which Microsoft then shit all over (to be fair, Skype started that process even before MS bought them) and eventually renamed it to Microsoft Teams.
catloaf@lemm.ee 10 months ago
And for a while, there was also Skype for Business (formerly Lync (formerly Communicator)).
orclev@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah that was part of the brand reshuffling they did to obfuscate things. Lync was their shitty chat app they tried to convince businesses to use that everyone hated. They bought Skype, renamed it to Microsoft Teams, renamed Lync to Skype for Business, and killed MSN Messenger. When people still didn’t want to use
LyncSkype for Business, then they killed that as well, and now it’s just MS Teams.caoimhinr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fun fact any developer working with the api can tell you, there is a clear distinction between de voip bit and the meeting/chat bit. They haven’t bothered rewriting or integrating it in any way so the Skype for business backend is still very much alive.
ShunkW@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lync was such garbage. I used that for years at one of my old jobs. Teams just feels like discord with extra shittiness lol.
The worst part is that they had developed an in-house app that worked amazing but abandoned it for teams.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Still remember setting up lync 2013 for our company. It was one of the funner projects I remember doing. I was not as thrilled about setting up SharePoint 2013…
Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
For a while? Our business used it until … this year. It’s finally EOL this year.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 10 months ago
If I remember correctly the Skype for business still identified as communicator on the about page.
P1nkman@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The process was skype.exe, so Lync was Skype with a skin.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have use teams at work and I hate it.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Slack is okay. Teams is full rubbish. I can’t disagree with you. Fuck teams.
Scrollone@feddit.it 10 months ago
I’m so old that I used Skype when it had a red logo.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 10 months ago
And the video chats were choppy and black and white and with delayed audio. Those were the days…
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Actually, to Lync first. Then Teams. All three suck.
yamanii@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Skype was never meant to replace MSN, even back then everyone complained about it and we talked on teamspeak while playing games.