Not really. It’s just called “Teams” now.
Skype was shut down for good today
Submitted 10 months 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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BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 10 months ago
wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Is there a non paywalled link?
scarabic@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Yup. It was THE app to use way back in the day. Before that was Ventrilo, but setting up a Vent server was a pain in the ass. I got it working once, but it was a lot of port tinkering and giving out my IP to trusted friends.
Skype made it so easy to just click and call or else make rooms for your guild in whatever game you played at the time (my poison of choice was Ragnarok Online).
Then Skype changed hands, started monetizing, pushing Windows pre-installs, and would even watch conversations to make sure no one was using the app for sexual purposes.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
giving out my IP to trusted friends
Just in case you ever get back into it: We regularly see scanners scanning the internet with a million packets per second at work these days. That means it takes them 4000 seconds to scan the entire IPv4 Internet to check who responds on port 3784. So handing out the IP selectively won’t be enough.
I also learned that the hard way privately with my Minecraft server. It was listed on Shodan at some point, and I hadn’t put up a whitelist. Some shitty kids came and destroyed whatever they could find before finally putting up signs to mock me lol
stebator@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They screwed it up as much as possible and abandoned the P2P protocol and are now shutting it down. The behavior is like a little kid who broke a toy, it stopped working and he throws it away.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 10 months 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.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 10 months 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.
ziltoid101@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I want to put Skype’s corpse on a banner and wave it around to all the software that’s currently undergoing enshittification.
Teknikal@eviltoast.org 10 months ago
Truthfully I loved Skype until Microsoft bought it.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
and when are the estonian nationalist gonna luigi em?
moxlas@discuss.online 10 months ago
Still working as of 4 hours ago, saw my friend using it, might be business version though.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Skype for Business LTSC 2024 is still supported until 2029. You just need to already be running an On-Prem Skype for Business Server and migrate it to the new Subscription Edition come October. I bet it will get really costly for the holdouts.
VisionScout@lemmy.wtf 10 months 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.
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Story of the Microsoft…
some_random_nick@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ll never get over MSN Messenger
VisionScout@lemmy.wtf 10 months 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).
tauren@lemm.ee 10 months ago
IMO Skype to this day has the best emojis.
chrischryse@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wait, Skype was still around? I thought it shutdown a few years back
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Mandela effect in full bloom
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Scream test.
Nublets@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Skype you later!
mechoman444@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months 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.
shadejinx@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Who?
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 10 months ago
For us plebs. Government (US) will still use it for years to come.
wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Nope, Teams.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 10 months ago
Not everywhere.
hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
I think Teams has already taken over there as well.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 10 months ago
Not everywhere.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I actually had a Skype phone back in the days
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 months 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 10 months ago
MSN Messenger was brilliant. At the time I used it, everyone I knew used it. It was the go-to for communication.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I see Brennan, I upvote. Love the guy, his DnD campaigns are a blast!
kingofras@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Can I guess that the American amoral capitalist company won’t have transferred my Skype credit?
The_v@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I had like $9.22 remaining credit from some international calls back in 2002 I was going to use…eventually.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Nobody noticed
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 10 months ago
great, now do teams.
nobody should have to use that ugly useless piece of shit for anything.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 months 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.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 10 months 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 10 months 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.
TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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.
based_raven@lemm.ee 10 months 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 10 months 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.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
how much better of an experience Zoom had over Skype.
I hate Zoom
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 10 months ago
Microsoft had been neglecting it for quite some time.
You’re right but that’s why they’re idiots 😄
InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 10 months 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 10 months 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.
Amir@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
MS Teams did become the standard in a lot of places now
boaratio@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have to use Teams for work and it is absolute dog shit.
pdxfed@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 10 months ago
iopq@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Intel thought the iPhone market was going to be too small so they didn’t agree to manufacture their CPUs
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Blackberry and Nokia were so slow to react to the iPhone, it was painful to watch.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Netflix tried to get distribution in Blockbuster and a partnership w/them and were told to fuck off …
Cocopanda@futurology.today 10 months ago
They’re a cyber security firm now. Wild stuff.
M154nthr0p3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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
lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And nothing of existing value was lost… 🤷♂️ 🙄
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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