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.
Skype was shut down for good today
Submitted 3 weeks 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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TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
to be fair i miss physical keyboards on phones. i wish we gave the space for it.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Netflix tried to get distribution in Blockbuster and a partnership w/them and were told to fuck off …
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Blackberry and Nokia were so slow to react to the iPhone, it was painful to watch.
iopq@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Intel thought the iPhone market was going to be too small so they didn’t agree to manufacture their CPUs
Cocopanda@futurology.today 3 weeks ago
They’re a cyber security firm now. Wild stuff.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Microsoft had been neglecting it for quite some time.
You’re right but that’s why they’re idiots 😄
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
how much better of an experience Zoom had over Skype.
I hate Zoom
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.Nalivai@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nobody uses Teams voluntarily. It’s always imposed by corporate.
Skype was the term for skyping. It’s like buying a social media that coined the term tweet and changing it’s name to a letter. Stupidest shit ever.
Amir@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
MS Teams did become the standard in a lot of places now
boaratio@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I have to use Teams for work and it is absolute dog shit.
based_raven@lemm.ee 3 weeks 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 weeks 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.
VisionScout@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
skype was way ahead of his time. The quality was top notch. MS fucked by changing the architecture from decentralized to centralized in windows servers - this fucked up the calls quality and it created an opportunity window for whatsapp, viber, etc…
MS turned skype to shit.
some_random_nick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ll never get over MSN Messenger
VisionScout@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
For video calls that was really bad compared to skype.
Unfortunately everybody was using it (i had to do it because everybody was using it).
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Story of the Microsoft…
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
great, now do teams.
nobody should have to use that ugly useless piece of shit for anything.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
It was dead to me after microsoft bought it.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It really went downhill from them on.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
And as a follow up, Teams was never good because it was never native to anything (instead it was Electron and is now some sort of React/Edge homebrew).
thejml@lemm.ee 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Communicator should be in there somewhere, too
Teknikal@eviltoast.org 3 weeks ago
Truthfully I loved Skype until Microsoft bought it.
carrion0409@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Rip to a real one
mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
MSN Messenger was brilliant. At the time I used it, everyone I knew used it. It was the go-to for communication.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I remember the “old” Skype, which was essential for keeping in touch with my siblings before we got cell phones. Once I got a phone, it was the end of Skype until ~2014 when I got a job where Skype for business was available. I still didn’t use it because that application would sometimes crash if you just jiggled the mouse. It because a running joke at my workplace.
Clock into work, Skype crashed.
Go to lunch, Skype crashed.
Ran out of TP at home. You guessed it. Skype crashed.
ziltoid101@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I want to put Skype’s corpse on a banner and wave it around to all the software that’s currently undergoing enshittification.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I see Brennan, I upvote. Love the guy, his DnD campaigns are a blast!
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Story of the times, have a good thing then break it so you can replace it with a shitier thing. Then have the competition eat your lunch by making a slightly less shitty thing.
I found my physical “skipe” phone last week, dang it we could have had a bad bitch. But no, now we have fucking teams.
kingofras@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Can I guess that the American amoral capitalist company won’t have transferred my Skype credit?
The_v@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Literally everything they work on seems to turn to shit
Not the MS Office though.
chrischryse@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wait, Skype was still around? I thought it shutdown a few years back
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Scream test.
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Mandela effect in full bloom
superkret@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Is Microsoft planning to release a viable replacement eventually?
0x01@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Teams is their replacement, viable or not
superkret@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Teams helps cooperation by uniting everyone through their shared hatred for Teams.
adarza@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Immigration Canada wanted proof of my wife’s relationship, so we dumped a packet of printed call logs on them as thick as a novel. Skype certainly served its purpose.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 weeks ago
For us plebs. Government (US) will still use it for years to come.
hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
I think Teams has already taken over there as well.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 weeks ago
Not everywhere.
wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Nope, Teams.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 weeks ago
Not everywhere.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Huh?
I thought Skype was still a widely used thing.Eldritch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well; not any more. That’s for sure.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 weeks 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
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not really. It’s just called “Teams” now.
farcaster@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Nublets@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Skype you later!
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I actually had a Skype phone back in the days
M154nthr0p3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Archive
shadejinx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Who?
tauren@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
IMO Skype to this day has the best emojis.
scarabic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Everyone cashed out on Skype the day it was sold to eBay. Years later people are still wondering what happened to it?? The train left the station forever ago.
9point6@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
inbeesee@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is this real lore or is this meme
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Teams died for Teams (New)
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Teams will die for Copilot somehow.
lemmyng@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Teams dying doesn’t sound too bad either. Just hoping the next iteration isn’t even worse
lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Given M$'s track record, it definitely will be worse…
superkret@feddit.org 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Next iteration will be MSN Messenger
pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Making it worse?How could it be worse?Jehovah!
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And MSN was so much better.
Spider2013@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Can imagine your boss nudging you? Lol
resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 3 weeks 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.