Wait, Skype was still around? I thought it shutdown a few years back
Skype was shut down for good today
Submitted 19 hours ago by comador@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/05/skype-shutting-down-microsoft/
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chrischryse@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Scream test.
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Mandela effect in full bloom
mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I’m 39. So I’ve been around Skype since it came out back in 2003. Since then, 22 years later I didn’t use it a single time. Never downloaded the program, app or accessed the webpage. 🤷
aceshigh@lemmy.world 37 minutes ago
I used Skype a couple of times - I was talking to someone overseas. This was pre zoom. It’s interesting that they dropped the ball, they could have been zoom.
TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
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.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Did they really? Microsoft championed Teams and its pretty accepted in corporate environments today, especially if they are already on Microsoft.
Afaik, Skype for Business was merged into Teams. Skype for non-business consumers has been virtually dead for longer. The way I see it, Microsoft let go of the brand, the value of which is questionable in this decade. When they bought it, I remember the rumors saying it was because of its voice codec.pdxfed@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
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.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
to be fair i miss physical keyboards on phones. i wish we gave the space for it.
iopq@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Intel thought the iPhone market was going to be too small so they didn’t agree to manufacture their CPUs
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Netflix tried to get distribution in Blockbuster and a partnership w/them and were told to fuck off …
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Blackberry and Nokia were so slow to react to the iPhone, it was painful to watch.
Cocopanda@futurology.today 15 hours ago
They’re a cyber security firm now. Wild stuff.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
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.
based_raven@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
I couldn’t get my head round this at all. Everyone used Skype where I worked, and it seemed hugely popular. By the time COVID happened, I was in another job, and all of a sudden everyone was going mad about this Zoom program. I’d never heard of it, but it just came out of nowhere and everyone on the planet was using it. How on earth Skype fumbled it so hard is absolutely staggering.
boonhet@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
Skype didn’t fumble it, Microsoft just doesn’t know how to strategy. When they bought Skype, they killed MSN and told people to move to Skype, whereas they should’ve integrated the two to make the transition seamless. Then they had both Teams and Skype for Business at the same time by the time COVID happened.
They messed up on every turn.
InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 15 hours ago
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.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
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.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
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.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 11 hours ago
Microsoft had been neglecting it for quite some time.
You’re right but that’s why they’re idiots 😄
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
how much better of an experience Zoom had over Skype.
I hate Zoom
Amir@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
MS Teams did become the standard in a lot of places now
boaratio@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I have to use Teams for work and it is absolute dog shit.
9point6@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
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)
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 18 hours ago
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 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.
Agent641@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Teams died for Teams (New)
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Teams will die for Copilot somehow.
lemmyng@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Teams
New Teams
Teams (New)
Teams with Copilot
Copilot Teams
MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 17 hours ago
Teams dying doesn’t sound too bad either. Just hoping the next iteration isn’t even worse
lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Given M$'s track record, it definitely will be worse…
superkret@feddit.org 8 hours ago
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.Agent641@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Next iteration will be MSN Messenger
pdxfed@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
And MSN was so much better.
Spider2013@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
Can imagine your boss nudging you? Lol
resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 15 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.
Nublets@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Skype you later!
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 5 hours ago
For us plebs. Government (US) will still use it for years to come.
hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 47 minutes ago
I think Teams has already taken over there as well.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
great, now do teams.
nobody should have to use that ugly useless piece of shit for anything.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 14 hours ago
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.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
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.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
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.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 hours ago
I fell out of contact with a lot of people when they shuttered MSN messenger for Skype, so not sad to see it go.
based_raven@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
MSN Messenger was brilliant. At the time I used it, everyone I knew used it. It was the go-to for communication.
shadejinx@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Who?
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 17 hours ago
It was dead to me after microsoft bought it.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
It really went downhill from them on.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I see Brennan, I upvote. Love the guy, his DnD campaigns are a blast!
thejml@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
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.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
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.
DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
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.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Communicator should be in there somewhere, too
carrion0409@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
Rip to a real one
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I actually had a Skype phone back in the days
kingofras@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Can I guess that the American amoral capitalist company won’t have transferred my Skype credit?
The_v@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I had like $9.22 remaining credit from some international calls back in 2002 I was going to use…eventually.
Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
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
taiyang@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
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”
Llewellyn@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
Literally everything they work on seems to turn to shit
Not the MS Office though.
superkret@feddit.org 18 hours ago
Is Microsoft planning to release a viable replacement eventually?
0x01@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
Teams is their replacement, viable or not
superkret@feddit.org 18 hours ago
Teams helps cooperation by uniting everyone through their shared hatred for Teams.
adarza@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
they could have kept the skype name on the ‘consumer’ product, even if underneath it was the same piece of shit teams, just with ‘enterprise’ features hidden.
farcaster@lemmy.world 17 hours 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 16 hours ago
Archive
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 18 hours ago
Huh?
I thought Skype was still a widely used thing.Eldritch@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Well; not any more. That’s for sure.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 15 hours 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 16 hours ago
I haven’t heard of anyone using Skype in over a decade.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
Nobody noticed
lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
And nothing of existing value was lost… 🤷♂️ 🙄
tauren@lemm.ee 20 minutes ago
IMO Skype to this day has the best emojis.